Explore Shivaji Empire Map or Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Swarajya Map to know about the area ruled by Marathas. The Maratha Empire is also knows as the Maratha Confederacy and it was an ancient modern confederation of India that progressed to control large part of the Indian subcontinent in the eighteenth century. The Maratha control or command properly initiated in 1674 with the crowning of Shivaji as Chhatrapati of the Bhonsle Dynasty. Shivaji belongs to Maratha caste, this empire too comprised administrators, warriors, and many notables from the caste of Maratha and various other castes people from Maharashtra.
