![]() The Marathi community came into political prominence in the 17th century, when the Maratha Empire was established under Shivaji the Marathas are credited to a large extent for reducing the Mughal emperor to a mere figurehead. The term "Maratha" is generally used by historians to refer to all Marathi-speaking peoples, irrespective of their caste however, now it may refer to a Maharashtrian caste known as the Maratha. Maharashtra was formed as a Marathi-speaking state of India in 1960, as part of a nationwide linguistic reorganisation of the Indian states. They natively speak Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language. The Marathi people ( Marathi: मराठी लोक, romanized: Marāṭhī lōka) or Marathis (Marathi: मराठी, romanized: Marāṭhī) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are indigenous to Maharashtra in western India. ![]()
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