Marathas attacked and butchered Hindus as well *(see below). They raided, raped and looted Hindu monasteries like Srinegeri Shankaracharya. The myth of them as some kind of Hindu and thereby Indian nationalists is a modern invention to try and give some kind of legitimacy to the artificial construction that is the modern day Republic of India. No political entity called India has ever existed in human history, and ironically Indians including those present here are mocking Punjabis about Abdali, willfully ignoring that if their Hindu ancestors were non-Marathi, they too were probably looted, raped and massacred by their "holy" Marathas.
*"In the
Maharashtra Purana, a poem in Bengali written by Gangaram, the poet describes the destruction caused by the raiders (Marathas) in great detail:
This time none escaped,
Brahmanas, and Vaisnavas, Sannyasis, and householders,
all had the same fate, and cows were massacred along with men"
https://scroll.in/article/776978/forgotten-indian-history-the-brutal-maratha-invasions-of-bengal
"The less said about Hindu unity against Muslims after the death of Aurangzeb the better. The fact is that the Marathas extorted the Rajput kingdoms mercilessly. There was such nastiness between them that the Rajputs actually massacred the Maratha soldiers who were occupying their city. In December 1750, Jaipur’s Maharaja Ishwari Singh committed suicide (getting himself bitten by a cobra) because he was unable to pay the Marathas.
Sir Jadunath writes that “on 10 January, some 4,000 Marathas entered Jaipur… (and) despising the helpless condition of a king propped up by their arms, seemed to have behaved towards Jaipur as a city taken by storm. Suddenly the pent-up hatred of the Rajputs burst forth; a riot broke out at noon, and the citizens attacked the unsuspecting Marathas. For nine hours slaughter and pillage raged.”
It is this precision and this clarity that makes us open our eyes to the world as it was in that period. Any notion that we have of Muslim oppression and Hindu liberation goes out of the window on reading this work. The Marathas campaigned for one thing alone, and that was called
Chauth. It was a fourth of all the revenue that a kingdom produced."
https://www.thehindu.com/books/seeing-the-world-as-it-was/article24591915.ece