Enlightenment · South Asia · Politics

1707

Maratha Resurgence Under Shahu

June 1, 1707

Released by the Mughals after eighteen years of captivity, Shivaji's grandson Shahu returned to the Deccan and, after a brief civil war, took the throne of the Marathas. Under his peshwas the confederacy would become the dominant power in India, stretching one day from Attock to Tanjore. The peshwa at Pune gradually eclipsed the king at Satara, governing the confederacy's vast network of tributary states.

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