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Maratha Military Landscapes of India
Maratha Military Landscapes of India is a serial UNESCO World Heritage property comprising twelve fortifications built by the Marathas between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Maratha Navy
The Maratha Navy (आंग्रे) was the naval force of the Maratha state on India's western coast, led by admiral Kanhoji Angre from 1698 and destroyed in 1756.
Maratha occupation of Odisha
The Maratha occupation of Odisha (ମରାଠା ଆକ୍ରମଣ) was the seizure of coastal Odisha by Raghuji Bhonsle of Nagpur through invasions from 1741 to 1751, confirmed by treaty in 1751.
Maratha raids into Malwa and Gujarat
The Maratha raids into Malwa and Gujarat (मालवा व गुजरात मोहीम) were Maratha expeditions into the Mughal provinces of Malwa and Gujarat, beginning under Aurangzeb and ending with the treaty of 7 January 1738.
Maratha War of Succession
The Maratha War of Succession was a 1707–1708 conflict between Shahu I and Tara Bai, decided at Khed-Kadus, that left the Marathas with rival thrones at Satara and Kolhapur.
Maratha–Sikh clashes
Maratha–Sikh clashes: military and political encounters between the Maratha confederacy and the Sikh misls, 1758–1806, from the joint 1758 Punjab invasion and Sirhind plunder through Panipat 1761 to rivalry and settlement under Mahadji Scindia.
Marathi Adivasi literature
Marathi Adivasi literature (आदिवासी साहित्य) is the body of Marathi writing by and about the Adivasi (tribal) communities of Maharashtra, recognized as a literary stream after 1960.
Marathi autobiography
Marathi autobiography (ātmakathan) is self-written life narrative in Marathi, reshaped from the 1970s by Dalit autobiographies such as Daya Pawar's Balute (1978) that recorded caste, poverty, and untouchability as collective memory.
Marathi Buddhist literature
Marathi Buddhist literature (बौद्ध साहित्य) is Buddhist writing in the Marathi language, spanning Ambedkar's own works and the Ambedkarite literary movement that grew from his 1956 conversion.
Marathi children's literature
Marathi children's literature (मराठी बालसाहित्य) is literature written for children in the Marathi language, a tradition more than 150 years old with its own magazines, writers, and awards.
Marathi cinema (मराठी चित्रपट)
Marathi cinema (मराठी चित्रपट), the Marathi-language film industry of Maharashtra, began with Raja Harishchandra (1913), India's first feature film; known for Court, Shwaas, and Sairat, it grossed ₹177 crore in 2024.
Marathi detective fiction
Marathi detective fiction (मराठी गुप्तहेरकथा) is the body of detective and mystery stories in the Marathi language, popular from the mid-twentieth century onward, led by Baburao Arnalkar.
Marathi essay tradition
The Marathi essay tradition (निबंध वाङ्मय) is the body of essay writing, or nibandh, in the Marathi language, which took shape in the nineteenth century.
Marathi experimental theatre
Marathi experimental theatre (प्रायोगिक रंगभूमी, prayogik rangabhumi), also called samip or samantar rangabhumi, is the non-commercial branch of Marathi theater in Maharashtra that took shape in the 1960s.
Marathi folk literature movement
The Marathi folk literature movement is the scholarly effort in Maharashtra to collect, study, and establish Marathi folk songs, tales, and proverbs as an independent academic discipline.
Marathi ghazal
The Marathi ghazal (मराठी गझल) is the Arabic-Persian ghazal form of rhymed couplets adapted into the Marathi language, first written around 1729 by the poet Amritray.
Marathi historical novel
The Marathi historical novel (ऐतिहासिक कादंबरी) is Marathi fiction that reconstructs a historical period, usually the Maratha past, by blending documented history with imagined characters; the genre began in the 1860s.
Marathi language
Marathi (मराठी) is an Indo-Aryan language of Maharashtra, India, written in Devanagari and descended from Sanskrit via Maharashtri Prakrit. Around 83 million speakers per Census 2011, official language of Maharashtra, and a Government of India Classical Language since October 2024.
Marathi literary criticism
Marathi literary criticism (साहित्यसमीक्षा, sāhityasamīkṣā) is the body of writing in Marathi that evaluates literary works and theorizes about literature, divided into theoretical and applied criticism.
Marathi novel
The Marathi novel (कादंबरी) is the tradition of extended prose fiction in Marathi, the language of Maharashtra in western India, which began in the mid-nineteenth century.
Marathi one-act play
The Marathi one-act play, or ekankika, is a one-act play in the Marathi language, built on a single incident with no subplots and rising steadily to its climax.
Marathi people
Marathi people (मराठी लोक) are Marathi-language speakers of Maharashtra, India; 83 million speakers (2011), homeland state formed 1960, Maratha Empire under Shivaji from 1674, Marathi made a Classical Language in 2024.
Marathi rap
Marathi rap is hip hop performed in the Marathi language, rooted in Mumbai, Pune, and Maharashtra within desi hip hop, with artists like Shreyas, Sambata, and MC Mawali reaching charts and international labels.
Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
The Marathi Sahitya Sammelan (मराठी साहित्य संमेलन) is an annual conference of Marathi writers, first held in Pune in 1878 under Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade.
Marathi science fiction
Marathi science fiction (विज्ञानकथा, vidnyankatha) is science fiction written in the Marathi language, principally in Maharashtra, India, which took off in the 1970s through the Marathi Vidnyan Parishad and astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar.
Marathi science writing
Marathi science writing (मराठी विज्ञान साहित्य) is literature in Marathi, the language of Maharashtra, that presents science to general readers, including popular science, science fiction, and nature writing.
Marathi short story
The Marathi short story (लघुकथा, laghukatha) is a narrative literary form in Marathi that arose in the 19th century with periodicals and became independent after 1920.
Marathi theatre
Marathi theatre (मराठी रंगभूमि) is the tradition of professional and amateur stage drama in the Marathi language, centered in Maharashtra and begun by Vishnudas Bhave's Sita Swayamvar in 1843.
Marathi translation
Marathi translation (मराठी भाषांतर) is the practice of translating texts between Marathi, spoken by roughly 95 million people in Maharashtra, and other languages, chiefly English and Hindi.
Marathi travelogue
A Marathi travelogue (प्रवासवर्णन, pravāsavarṇana) is Marathi prose writing that recounts the author's travel experiences; the first is Vishnubhat Godse's Majha Pravas, published in 1907.