State · 1674 – 1818
Maratha Empire
A state of 1674 – 1818 — 144 years in South Asia. It replaced Jaoli State and followed Mughal Empire. It was replaced by Junagadh State, Baroda State and Patiala State and 13 more. The atlas records 21 things within it — wars and battles 7 · treaties 1 · people 13. Its line of rulers holds 9 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 144 years
- 1674 – 1818
- Rulers
- 9
- the Chatrapati
- Most ground
- 1.28 million km²
- in 1772
- Within it
- 21
- recorded rows
- Symbol
- 1
- on record, with years
1677 · first mapped · 34,500 km²
1772 · at its largest · 1.28 million km²
1814 · last mapped · 857,200 km²
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Mughal Empire · follows · 1526 – 1857
- Jaoli State · replaces
After it
- Jind State · replaced by · 1763 – 1948
- Samthar State · replaced by · 1760 – 1950
- Junagadh State · replaced by · 1748 – 1948
- Savanur State · replaced by · 1680 – 1948
- Sawantwadi State · replaced by · 1627 – 1948
- Mudhol State · replaced by · 1465 – 1948
- Sangli State · replaced by · 1801 – 1948
- Ajmer-Merwara · replaced by · 1818 – 1936
- Kingdom of Nagpur · replaced by · 1818 – 1853
- Sandur State · replaced by · 1713 – 1949
- Kolhapur State · replaced by · 1707 – 1949
- Baoni State · replaced by · 1784 – 1948
- Baroda State · replaced by · 1721 – 1949
- Tonk State · replaced by · 1817 – 1949
- Bhor State · replaced by · 1697 – 1948
- Patiala State · replaced by · 1761 – 1947
Rulers
The line of Chatrapati.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jijabai | 1645 – 1674 | 29 years | ending not on record | |
| Shivaji | 1674 – 1680 | 6 years | ending not on record | child |
| Sakavaarbai | 1674 – 1680 | 6 years | ending not on record | spouse |
| Soyarabai | 1680 – 1681 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Rajaram I | 1689 – 1700 | 11 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Shivaji I of Kolhapur | 1700 – 1714 | 14 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | child |
| Maharani Yesubai | 1719 – 1730 | 11 years | ending not on record | |
| Tarabai | 1730 – 1761 | 31 years | ending not on record | |
| Pratap Singh of Satara | 1808 – 1818 | 10 years | ending not on record |
9 rulers, 9 with terms dated as terms, covering 1645 – 1818. Median reign 11 years. 1 of 8 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
34,500 km² in 1684, 857,200 km² in 1818; at its largest 1.28 million km² in 1774. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flag or arms
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedFlag of the Maratha Empire · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1600 – 16992 rows
- Rajaram I · ruler · 1670 – 1700
- Shivaji I of Kolhapur · ruler · 1696 – 1726
1700 – 179914 rows · 3 wars and battles
- Bajirao I · person · 1700 – 1740
- Carnatic wars · war · 1746 – 1763
- First Anglo-Maratha War · war · 1775 – 1782
- Kittur Chennamma · commander · 1778 – 1829
- Fourth Anglo-Mysore War · war · 1798 – 1799
- Balaji Baji Rao · person · 1720 – 1761
- Kashibai · person · 1703 – 1800
- Baji Rao II · politician · 1775 – 1851
and 6 more in the atlas.
1800 – 18995 rows · 4 wars and battles
- Tatya Tope · commander · 1814 – 1859
- Battle of Assaye · battle · 1803
- Battle of Koregaon · battle · 1818
- Battle of Argaon · battle · 1803
- Battle of Laswari · battle · 1803
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood144 years
stood longer than 54% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held1,280,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 87% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per century2.1
had more wars on record per century than 98% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median11 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 38% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record9
has more rulers on record than 78% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 6 causes the record names and 17 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Theories that apply to its ending
Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending and 1 some of them; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.
Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 144
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1660 – 1832, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1772, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q83618 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.