Marāthā (Marathi: , also Mahratta) has three related usages: within the Marathi speaking region it describes the dominant Maratha caste; outside Maharashtra it can refer to the entire regional population of Marathi-speaking people; historically, it describes the Maratha empire founded by Shivaji in the seventeenth century and continued by his successors, which included many
castes.
The Maratha caste consists mainly of warriors, landowners, savakars. The Maratha are a group of Hindus with the castes of warriors, landowners. They primarily reside in the India's states like Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka & Tamilnadu.
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