మరాఠా సామ్రాజ్యం
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మరాఠా సామ్రాజ్యం ఆధునిక యుగం మొదట్లో భారత ఉపఖండంలో నెలకొన్న ఒక సామ్రాజ్యం. ఇందులో పేష్వాలు పరిపాలించిన ప్రాంతాలు, ఇంకా ఇతర స్వతంత్ర రాజ్యాలు ఉన్నాయి.[1][2] ఇది 1674 లో శివాజీని మరాఠా ఛత్రపతిగా పట్టాభిషేకం చేయడంతో మొదలైంది. దీనిని చాలా కాలం పాటు జరిగిన తిరుగుబాట్ల తర్వాత మొఘలు చక్రవర్తి అయిన మొదటి బహదూర్ షా 1707 లో సామంత రాజ్యంగా ప్రకటించాడు. దీని తర్వాత మరాఠా పాలకులు భారతదేశంలోని ఇతర పరిపాలకుల్లానే మొఘలాయిల ఆధిపత్యాన్ని అంగీకరిస్తూ వచ్చినా 1737 నుంచి 1803 మధ్యలో ఢిల్లోని మొఘలుల అధికారాన్ని ప్రభావితం చేశారు.[a][3][4]
గమనికలు
[మార్చు]- ↑ The Peshwa between 1737 and 1761 and the Scindias between 1771 and 1803
మూలాలు
[మార్చు]- ↑ Kumar, Ravinder (2013). Western India in the Nineteenth Century: A Study in the Social History of Maharashtra. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-03146-6.
Prominent among these chiefs were the Bhonsles who established themselves in Nagpur; the Scindhias who gained control of Gwalior; the Gaekwads who set themselves up in Baroda; and the Holkars who seized hold of Indore. Between the Peshwas and the Maratha chiefs there subsisted a relationship which it is most difficult to define. The chiefs were to all intents and purposes independent, yet they recognised the Peshwa as the head of the Maratha polity
- ↑ Kantak (1993), p. 24.
- ↑ Garg, Sanjay (2022). The Raj and the Rajas : Money and Coinage in Colonial India. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-82889-4.
From the Mughal point of view, the hostilities between the Company Bahadur and the Marathas could appear as a troublesome contest for power between the Imperial Diwan of Bengal and the Vakil-i Mutlaq or Imperial Regent. The actual participants of course were considerably more cynical of the position of the Emperor, both the English and Scindia treating their suzerain lord with scant respect..The paramount position of the Mughal within the rituals of supreme and sovereign authority may be amply demonstrated by reference to the coins of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Following the doctrine of khutba and sikka, new claimants to hegemony could be expected to be revealed on the coins of different jurisdictions. Yet for much of India they are not to be found. Reference to the graph at the end of this paper will confirm that both the Marathas and the British coined in the name of the Mughal.
- ↑ Mehta 2005 : "Vishwanath consolidated the Maratha power in the Deccan and led an expeditionary force to Delhi (1718–19) as an ally of the Sayyad brothers. He made the Maratha presence felt at the metropolis for the first time, secured the release of Shahu's family members from Mughal captivity, and obtained the confirmation of the Mughal-Maratha Treaty of 1718 from the emperor. This treaty, by which Shahu accepted the nominal suzerainty of the Mughal Crown in return for his right to collect chauth and sardeshmukhi from all the six provinces of 'the Mughal Deccan'...Delhi became the hub of Maratha political and military activities with effect from 1752, and they used the Mughal emperor as a mere tool in their hands to wield the imperial powers in his name and under his nominal suzerainty."