Marathas wanted to expand their empire beyond the ____.

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Marathas wanted to expand their empire beyond the Deccan. The Maratha king was recognised as the ruler of the entire Deccan peninsula by the 1730s after they had taken Malwa and Gujarat from the Mughals in the 1720s. Another significant regional kingdom to emerge as a result of persistent resistance to Mughal rule was the Maratha kingdom. With the assistance of strong warrior families, Shivaji (1627–1680) established a stable kingdom (deshmukhs). The Maratha army's core was made up of highly mobile peasant pastoralist groups known as "kunbis". Shivaji employed these forces to confront the Mughals in the peninsula. After Shivaji's demise, a family of Chitpavan Brahmanas who served Shivaji's successors as Peshwa held actual power in the Maratha state.

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