Kolhapur is a city on the banks of the Panchganga River in the southern part of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
New Terminal at Kolhapur Airport
Image: Mahalaxmi Temple, Kolhapur
Image: Reliance Mega Mall Kolhapur
Image: National Highway 4 kolhapur
The Maratha Empire, also referred to as the Maratha Confederacy, was an early modern Indian empire and later a confederation that controlled large portions of the Indian Subcontinent in the 18th century. Maratha rule formally began in 1674 with the coronation of Shivaji of the Bhonsle dynasty as the Chhatrapati. Although Shivaji came from the Maratha caste, the Maratha empire also included warriors, administrators, and other nobles from the Maratha and several other castes from what is known today as Maharashtra. The Maratha Kingdom was expanded into a full-fledged Empire in the 18th Century under the leadership of Peshwa Bajirao I.
The Maratha Confederacy in 1760, near its peak (Yellow)
Image: Shivaji seal, reproduction
Early Maratha conquests, in Shivaji's and Shahji's time
A portrait of Shivaji I