It was what men call a Mahratta. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Tales] Reference
Still there was no gunfire from the Mahratta centre. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Fortress]
The Mahratta twitched his fingers with pain from time to time. From Wordnik.com. [Kim] Reference
Wellesley at the head of the 19th Dragoons charging the Mahratta. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
Bappoo was not like most of the Mahratta leaders that Dodd knew. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Fortress]
A treaty was concluded, by which the Mahratta chiefs agreed to yield. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Sikh and the Pathan, the Gurkha and the Bengali, the Mahratta and the. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference
Seringapatam, a new enemy had appeared in the Mahratta confederacy, and. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
‘And who is that?’ the Mahratta asked, glancing sideways nervously. From Wordnik.com. [Kim] Reference
It is the sword of Savaji, the founder of the Mahratta dominion in India. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
Indore, he kept aloof from all Mahratta intrigues, and behaved well to us. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
But this weak compliance had the effect of emboldening the Mahratta chiefs. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Mahratta troops of Holkar, and had re-established the Peishwa in his capital. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Mahrattas -- against the confederated Mahratta chiefs, with whom he was at war. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
The British guns opened fire, their small six-pound missiles aimed at the Mahratta guns. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Fortress]
He turned his horse and kicked it to where the Mahratta warlord waited under his banners. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Fortress]
The Mahratta power was, however, on the decline; the flight of the peshwa from his capital to. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Subsequently motions were made for papers relating to the Mahratta peace, to the negociations which. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
He was the adopted son and heir of the last of the Peshwas, the Chiefs of the Mahratta confederacy. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
His progress was arrested by the intelligence that a large Mahratta army, under the chiefs Scindia and. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
So long as there was a balance of power between ourselves and Native States -- Mahratta, Rajput, Sikh, or. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
Countries, and I've dragged out three years of it in the old Mahratta country, and it has always been the same. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
Soon after Hastings received this letter, he heard that a fresh quarrel had arisen among the Mahratta chiefs at. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
In 1802, when the Scindiah made war upon the Mahratta sovereign of Poonah, and expelled him from his territories. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
We then received and returned visits with the jargirdar, a Mahratta, and an exceedingly courteous and dignified man. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
To increase the danger this conspiracy was formed at a time when the country was threatened with a new invasion by a Mahratta army. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
By the year 1778, however, the Mahratta chiefs who had been parties to the treaty with Colonel Upton became weary of their bargain. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Baran had properly no separate history, being a dependency of Koil, whence it continued to be administered under the Mahratta domination. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
He expected that the Mahratta confederacy would invade the country of Mysore, and he intimated his intention of returning for its defence. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
The cessation of the Mahratta invasions alone is an ample compensation for whatever of evil may have marked the course of British conquest. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
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