9-455: Baglana Kingdom was a Maratha Rashtrakuta kingdom of India that was situated on the main trade route between Surat and Daulatabad and Golkonda , with Burhanpur nearby. Marathi Hatgad Inscription of Raja Bhairavsen Bagul mentions conquest of Hatgad Fort by using berserker elephants to smash open the gates! . Earlier in the course of his life Raja Bhairavasen Bagul defeated Salim Shah & Nizamshahi Sultanate Raja, Raja Bhairavsen Bagul
18-402: A variety of strategies. One of them included killing of Chandrarao More , a fellow Maratha feudatory of Bijapur, and seizing the valley of Javali , near the present-day hill station of Mahabaleshwar . The conquest of Javali allowed Shivaji to extend his raids into south and southwest Maharashtra. Other strategies included forming marital alliances, dealing directly with village Patils to bypass
27-641: Is divided into five ranked tiers, the highest of which contains the five primary Maratha clans. Within a clan, ranking also depends on whether a man is progeny of proper marriage or a product of hypergamy. High ranking Maratha clans also historically held rights to hereditary estate or Watan .This included land grants, tax collection rights (revenue Patilki or policing (Police Patilki) of a village. Higher ranking clans held rights to larger estates or Jagirs . Clans with watan usually hold written genealogical records stretching back several generations. Kuladevata Too Many Requests If you report this error to
36-567: The Kunbi population got absorbed into these clans even in the 20th century. Thus, due to the mainly peasant origin, the claim of the 96 clans to the Kshatriya ritual status in the Hindu Varna hierarchy is considered spurious. Jaffrelot calls such claims "Kshatriyatisation", which he considers similar to Sanskritisation . Many Maratha clans served as Patils or Deshmukhs for
45-615: The Bahmani sultanate, and its successors, the Deccan sultanates and the Mughals from 14th century onwards under the watandari system. Influential families from this era include, Sawant of Sawantwadi , Ghorpade of Mudhol , Nimbalkar of Phaltan , Mane, Shirke , Mahadik and Mohite . Shivaji's own Bhosale family came to prominence later then these families. In his quest for swarajya , he had to fight, or subdue these families using
54-466: The Deshmukhs, or subduing them by force. In Maratha society, membership of a Kul or clan is acquired in a patrilineal manner. People belonging to a clan usually have a common surname, a common clan deity , and a common clan totem ( Devak ). Various lists have been compiled, purporting to list the 96 "true Maratha" clans, but these lists vary greatly and are disputed. The list of ninety-six clans
63-802: The Maratha caste of India . These Marathas primarily reside in the Indian state of Maharashtra , with smaller regional populations in other states. The 96 clans that the Maratha caste is divided into were originally formed in the earlier centuries from the amalgamation of families from the ( Kunbi ), shepherd ( Dhangar ), pastoral ( Gavli ), blacksmith ( Lohar ), carpenter (Sutar), Bhandari and Thakar castes in Maharashtra. The 96 kul(clans) and genealogies were fabricated after they gained political prominence. These clans were flexible enough that most of
72-409: The lands. The territory was put under the administrative control of a Mughal faujdar as a part of Khandesh province. The erstwhile Raja of Baglana did not long survive the conquest and his successor converted to Islam. Maratha clan system The Maratha Clan System (also referred to as Shahannava Kuli Marathas , 96 Kuli Marathas ) refers to the 96 Maratha clans. The clans together form
81-463: Was invited in famous Siege of Chittorgarh (1535) by Gujarat Sultan Bahadur Shah , which was ignored by Mughal Humayun as a "War against a Hindu". Over a period of many centuries up until 1637, the kingdom had paid a tribute to various Muslim rulers. In that year, Shah Jahan , the Mughal Emperor , placed his young son Aurangzeb in command of a force that successfully and easily annexed
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