Maratha | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-16

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Maratha


00:02:14 1 History
00:05:50 2 Origin
00:08:14 3 Internal diaspora
00:08:59 4 Comparative Cultural Issues, Literacy and Women's issues
00:09:11 4.1 Literacy
00:10:14 4.2 Women's issues
00:10:22 4.2.1 Dowry Issues
00:11:40 4.2.2 Widows
00:12:39 4.3 Festivals and Gods
00:14:09 5 Varna status
00:15:40 6 Inter-caste issues
00:15:49 6.1 Anti-Marwadi Deccan riots of 1875
00:16:29 6.2 Anti-Brahmin Violence
00:18:44 6.3 Worli BDD Chawl violence
00:19:22 6.4 Other incidents of caste related violence
00:19:32 6.4.1 Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
00:20:21 6.4.2 Ram Ganesh Gadkari Statue
00:21:11 6.4.3 Violence related to inclusion in the Other Backward Caste(OBC)
00:22:18 6.5 Other inter caste issues
00:22:27 6.5.1 Medha Khole Incident
00:23:37 7 Political participation
00:26:31 8 Military service
00:28:49 9 See also



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According to Britannica, "Maratha, a major people of India, famed in history as yeoman warriors and champions of Hinduism. The term Maratha is used in three overlapping senses: within the Marathi-speaking region it refers to the single dominant Maratha caste or to the group of Maratha and Kunbi castes; outside Maharashtra, the term often loosely designates the entire regional population speaking the Marathi language. The "Maratha group of castes" is a largely rural class of peasant cultivators, landowners, and soldiers."This article is only about the Maratha caste. For Maharashtrians or all Marathi speaking people, irrespective of caste, please refer to Marathi people. For the Kunbi caste of Maharashtrians, please refer to Kunbi.
According to the Maharashtrian historian, B.R.Sunthankar, and scholars such as Professor Rajendra Vora (from the University of Pune), the "Maratha caste" is a "caste of peasants" which formed the bulk of the Maharashtrian society together with the other Kunbi peasant caste. Vora adds that the Maratha caste is the largest caste of India and dominate the power structure in Maharashtra, especially in the rural society.According to Jeremy Black, British historian at the University of Exeter, "Maratha caste is a coalescence of  peasants, shepherds, ironworkers, etc. as a result of serving in the military in the 17th and 18th century". As per V.M.Sirsikar, political scientist from the University of Pune, Marathas are dominant in rural areas and mainly constitute the landed peasantry. As of 2018, 80% of the members of the Maratha caste were farmers.

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 The general body of lists are often at great variance with each other.
A report by an independent commission in November 2018 concluded that the Maratha caste is educationally, socially and economically a backward community.