books.google.co.in - The "Maratha period" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. In this book, Prachi Deshpande considers the importance of this period for a variety of...http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Creative_Pasts.html?id=U5FdJnnDhSwC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareCreative Pasts
