The Gwalior State was a state within the Maratha Empire located in Central India. It was ruled by the House of Scindia, a Hindu Maratha dynasty. Following the dissolution of the Confederacy, it became
The Maharaja of Gwalior before his palace by Edwin Lord Weeks.
Ranoji Scindia, founder of the Scindia dynasty of Gwalior
The Maratha Empire, also referred to as the Maratha Confederacy, was an early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent. For most of its existence, it comprised the realms of the Peshwa and four major
The Maratha Empire (yellow) in 1760
Early Maratha conquests, in Shivaji's and Shahji's time
Portrait of Shivaji, in the Rijksmuseum, Netherland.
Peshwa Bajirao I and Malhar Rao Holkar c.18th century