Why did the Marathas want to expand beyond the Deccan?

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To reduce the Mughal influence

To increase the Mughal influence

To rule all over India

None of the above

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● To reduce the Mughal influence, the Marathas desired to expand outside the Deccan.
● By the 1720s, they had wrested Malwa and Gujarat from the Mughals, and by the 1730s, the Maratha king had established himself as the supreme ruler of the Deccan peninsula.

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