In the chaos and instability that followed, emperor Aurangzeb’s death, the Maratha kingdom grew into an empire under the stewardship of its Peshwas Balaji Vishwanath and later his son, Baji Rao ...

Scindias and Gaekwads have a long history of collaboration for the furtherance of common goals of the Maratha Empire, both of them ... and Damajirao Gaekwad II along with others, to conquer ...