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invasion of Deccan in 1739 marked Bajirao's final military engagement before his passing in April 1740. Bajirao's adventurous life has been picturized...

Bhau, was the son of Balaji Vishwanath Bhat and the younger brother of Bajirao Peshwa of Maratha Empire. The high watermark of his career was the capture...

Mughal invasion of Konkan (1684) was a part of the Deccan wars. It was a campaign launched by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb to capture the Konkan region from the...

More Maratha rulers are descendants of Mauryas of Konkan.The oldest recorded members of the Konkan Maurya branch according to the inscriptions found in...

based in southern Konkan. In 1733, Peshwa Bajirao of the Maratha Empire launched a campaign against the Siddis of Janjira. Bajirao's forces, however, did...

Marathas invaded the areas around Bassein (Vasai) and war spread across the Konkan region. The Mahratta Confederacy had not attacked Portuguese territory in...

control of the Konkan coast. Shivaji was able to reduce their presence to the fortified island of Janjira. Sambhaji continued the Maratha campaign against them...

reign of Shivaji. It has been noted that vessels built in the dockyards of Konkan were mostly indigenous and constructed without foreign aid. Further, in...

the 1730s, after the death of Senapati Trymbakrao Dabhade and Bajirao's distant campaigns, Udaji Chavan obtained sanction from Tarabai's son Sambhaji to...

as Bajirao I, was a noted general who was appointed as the Peshwa by Shahu I of the Maratha Empire in 1720., He is also known as Thorale Bajirao (Bajirao...

Western Maharashtra, including the Konkan region, were ruled by different Shilahara houses based in North Konkan, South Konkan, and Kolhapur. At different periods...

ascendancy over the other bands of seafarers and their leaders along the Konkan Coast, a group that the Dutch with some justification called "Shivaji's...

Mulk Asaf Jahan died in 1748 and his son Nasir Jung became king. After Bajirao's death, his elder son Nanasaheb became the new Peshava. But in this new...

Khandker, player on Indian national hockey team Mastani Second wife of Peshwa Bajirao I, the prime minister. Daughter of Maharaja Chhatrasal Pankaj Mishra, Indian...

century, Shivaji founded the Maratha Kingdom by conquering the Desh and the Konkan regions from Bijapur kingdom, and established Hindavi Swaraj ("self-rule...

his government for over a decade. After this, Shivaji turned west to the Konkan and took possession of the important town of Kalyan. The Bijapur government...

and jewelry. In response to Shivaji's incursions and fort captures in the Konkan region, Ali Adilshah, ruler of the Adilshahi Sultanate, appointed Afzal...

time one of the Aurangzeb's generals, Husain Ali Khan, attacked Northern Konkan. Sambhaji left Janjira and attacked Husain Ali Khan and pushed him back...

below: Hetkari musketeers: Konkani musketeers recruited typically from the Konkan region, who possessed matchlocks and noted for their marksmanship Mavales:...

Maharashtra Konkan Marathwada Vidarbha Desh or Western Maharashtra It consists of six administrative divisions: Amravati Aurangabad Konkan Nagpur Nashik...