Maharashtra meaning

mä'hə-räsh'trə
A state of west-central India. Inhabited largely by Maratha-speaking Hindus, the region was controlled by Muslim rulers from the early 1300s to the mid-1600s and by the British after the early 1800s. It became a separate state in 1960. Mumbai is the capital.
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State of W India: 118,809 sq mi (307,714 sq km); cap. Mumbai.
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  • In a wider sense it may be extended to include all who inhabit Maharashtra and speak Mahratti as their mother-tongue.

  • Thus the Mahratta power was consolidated throughout nearly the whole of Maharashtra under the Brahman peshwa as virtual sovereign, with his capital at Poona, while the titular Mahratta raja or king had his court at the neighbouring city of Satara.

  • Thence he went northward across the Carnatic and Maharashtra to Barakacheva (Broach of our day, Barygaza of the Greeks).

  • Yoga Vidya Dham, located in Nasik, Maharashtra, in India, has a comprehensive yoga teachers' certification program that runs many times throughout the year.

  • MAHRATTAS, a people of India, inhabiting the district known by the ancient name of Maharashtra (Sans.

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