Crossword clues for maratha
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mahratta \Mah*rat"ta\, n. [Hind. Marhat[=a], Marh[=a]tt[=a], the name of a famous Hindoo race, from the old Skr. name Mah[=a]-r[=a]shtra.] One of a numerous people inhabiting the southwestern part of India. Also, the language of the Mahrattas; Mahrati. It is closely allied to Sanskrit. -- a. Of or pertaining to the Mahrattas. [Written also Maratha.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
state in southwestern India, also in reference to the Scytho-Dravidian race living there, 1763 (Mharatta), from Marathi Maratha, corresponding to Sanskrit Maharastrah, literally "great country," from maha- "great" (from PIE root *meg- "great;" see magnate) + rastra "kingdom," from raj "to rule" (see rajah).
Wikipedia
The Maratha (; archaically transliterated as Marhatta or Mahratta) is a group of castes in India found predominantly in the state of Maharashtra. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, "Marathas are people of India, famed in history as yeoman warriors and champions of Hinduism." They reside primarily in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Robert Vane Russell, an untrained ethnologist of the British Raj period, basing his research largely on Vedic literature, wrote that the Marathas are subdivided into 96 different clans, known as the 96 Kuli Marathas or 'Shahānnau Kule' Shahannau means 96 in Marathi. The general body of lists are often at great variance with each other.
The Maratha people in Uttar Pradesh are the descendants of the Marathi speaking immigrant soldiers and administrators settled in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. They immigrated to and settled in the present day Uttar Pradesh during the period of Maratha rule in the region. Most of these families arrived as a part of the army sent by Baji Rao Peshwa.
Today, they are found mainly in the districts of Jhansi, Jalaun, Banda, Lalitpur and Kanpur.
The Maratha people in Uttar Pradesh are mainly divided into three groups, the Koknastha Brahmins, Karhade Brahmins, and Deshastha Brahmins. These sub-groups are further divided into the clans, the main ones being the Nevalkars, Bhagwats, Borvankars, Moghes, Viledars, Bhaves, Sardesais, and Joshis.
The Maratha now speak Bundelkhandi and Hindi, although historically spoke Marathi.
Usage examples of "maratha".
They are Maratha cavalrymen who escaped from Andhra after the Malwa conquest and have been reconstituted as my regular army under properly appointed officers!
Kushans and Maratha cavalrymen, in the main, who cheerfully accepted the berating abuse of the Keralan ship captains.
The three young Maratha woodcutters conferred with each other quickly.
The Maratha fishermen and woodcutters who inhabited the dense forest along the coast were isolated, for the most part, from the rest of India.
They traveled faster than the Maratha guerillas, of course, but the couriers were restricted to the roads and had no real knowledge of the countryside.
The Maratha slave had finished his prayers and was lying down on his pallet in preparation for sleep.
But it was your Maratha cavalrymen who sabred the mob and spit them on their lances.
Whether I sit on the throne in rebuilt Amaravati, or crouch behind the battlements of a Maratha hillfort under siege, Kujulo's sword will always come between me and Malwa.
Whether I sit on the throne in rebuilt Amaravati, or crouch behind the battlements of a Maratha hillfort under siege, Kujulos sword will always come between me and Malwa.
Whether I sit on the throne in rebuilt Amaravati, or crouch behind the battlements of a Maratha hillfort under siege, Kujulo’.
She had been in Rao's keeping since the age of seven, and the Maratha chieftain had practically served as her surrogate father-uncle, say better.
She had been in Rao's keeping since the age of seven, and the Maratha chieftain had practically served as her surrogate father—.
She had been in Rao's keeping since the age of seven, and the Maratha chieftain had practically served as her surrogate father.