MAHRATTAS

MAHRATTAS
   a warlike Hindu race in Central India, occupying a territory watered by the Nerbudda, Godavari, and Kistna, who at one time kept up a struggle for the supremacy of India with the British, but were finally subdued in 1843.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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