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Write short answer of not more than 200 words: Structure and role of the Maratha Confederacy.

  • UPSC 1987
  • The Eighteenth Century

The Maratha Confederacy was the loose, decentralised structure the Maratha polity settled into after 1761, replacing Shivaji's earlier centralised Swarajya.

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