Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

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
Map: Maratha Empire in 1772, its borders in gold among its neighbours
Maratha Empire in 1772, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.28 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.
Maratha Empire in 1677, first mapped

1677 · first mapped · 34,500 km²

Maratha Empire in 1772, at its largest

1772 · at its largest · 1.28 million km²

Maratha Empire in 1814, last mapped

1814 · last mapped · 857,200 km²

The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Mughal Empire: 1526 – 1857Jind State: 1763 – 1948Samthar State: 1760 – 1950Junagadh State: 1748 – 1948Maratha Empire: 1674 – 1818

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

After it

Rulers

The line of Chatrapati.

Jijabai · 1645 – 1674 · no death date to read the end againstShivaji · 1674 – 1680 · no death date to read the end againstSakavaarbai · 1674 – 1680 · no death date to read the end againstSoyarabai · 1680 – 1681 · no death date to read the end againstRajaram I · 1689 – 1700 · died in office, manner not recordedShivaji I of Kolhapur · 1700 – 1714 · left office aliveMaharani Yesubai · 1719 – 1730 · no death date to read the end againstTarabai · 1730 – 1761 · no death date to read the end againstPratap Singh of Satara · 1808 – 1818 · no death date to read the end against170017501800
died in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Jijabai1645 – 167429 yearsending not on record
Shivaji1674 – 16806 yearsending not on recordchild
Sakavaarbai1674 – 16806 yearsending not on recordspouse
Soyarabai1680 – 16811 yearending not on record
Rajaram I1689 – 170011 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Shivaji I of Kolhapur1700 – 171414 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alonechild
Maharani Yesubai1719 – 173011 yearsending not on record
Tarabai1730 – 176131 yearsending not on record
Pratap Singh of Satara1808 – 181810 yearsending 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.

170017501800

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 of the Maratha Empire
    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 – 1699: 2 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 2 other16001700 – 1799: 14 recorded — 3 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 11 other17001800 – 1899: 5 recorded — 4 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 1 other1800

1600 – 16992 rows

1700 – 179914 rows · 3 wars and battles

and 6 more in the atlas.

1800 – 18995 rows · 4 wars and battles

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.

Mughal Empire · Linked · 1526 – 1857Mughal EmpireJaoli State · Linked · 1650Jaoli StateJijabai · Coincidence · 1598 – 1674JijabaiMaratha Empire · 1674 – 1818Maratha EmpireKingdom of Nagpur · Linked · 1818 – 1853Kingdom of NagpurAjmer-Merwara · Linked · 1818 – 1936Ajmer-MerwaraTonk State · Linked · 1817 – 1949Tonk StateSangli State · Linked · 1801 – 1948Sangli StateBaoni State · Linked · 1784 – 1948Baoni StateJind State · Linked · 1763 – 1948Jind State1600170018001900
linkedcoincidence

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

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.