masterchief_mirza
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Rabbles of Hindu kshatriyas with their families, concubines and servants in tow, and your "local hand-me-down historians" have these people as world beaters. Maratha empires nestled neatly into a power vacuum created by Muslim empires draining each other, and you perpetuate the myth of Maratha super heroes driving away all other "foreigners" under a Hindu banner.That "short lived" comeback crushed Muslim rule in the subcontinent forever and lasted for nearly half a century (47 years) till the Brits took over the sub-continent.
No Muslim power center.
Only Hindu.
Which is what I begun by saying here in the first place.
Cheers, Doc
Let's not get into the details of supposed Maratha Hindu domination, which actually pitted multi-religious armies against one another for worldly gains, rather than some abstract religious objective. Never mind that but let's simply focus on the grim reality that until Muslims had drained other Muslims of imperial might, and admittedly Sikhs too had played their role under Ranjit Singh and others, the marathas were a disorganised rabble who threw waves of humans (military and non-military alike) into great voids across the subcontinent to keep a few seats warm until the British arrived.
The mighty marathas couldn't even subdue Tipu without British help, never mind hordes of rampaging afghans and mughals on horseback.