Maratha - Revision history

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‎See also

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‎Maratha Politics

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‎Areas of dominance

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‎The Maratha community, as in 2023

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‎Politics

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‎Maratha Clans

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 Besides these political machinations, the Maratha reservation issue has a social aspect that is equally, if not more, complicated. That the Marathas are a heterogeneous community complicates the matter. In Marathwada and Vidarbha, the Marathas are considered Kunbis, who are recognised as OBCs. But in western Maharashtra, they are not identified as Kunbis. Moreover, OBCs abhor the idea of sharing the already shrinking reservation pie with the dominant Marathas. Some OBC organisations have wasted no time in flexing their muscles to ward off any move for a Maratha quota.
-''The writer is editor, Loksatta ''
+Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil withdrew his agitation and fast-unto-death protest on January 27 after the inclusion of the term ‘sage-soyare’ in the draft notification issued by the Maharashtra government’s social justice department.
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+The government has also sought suggestions and objections on the draft notification till February 16. A legal battle is imminent.
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		+	==Backwardness==
		+	===Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission, 2024===
		+	[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/regression-among-marathas-84-deserving-of-quota-panel/articleshow/109096786.cms April 7, 2024: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	In 2018, 53% men from community undertook manual labour; it dropped to 45% in 2024.MUMBAI: Marathas constitute 28% of the state population but display “exceptional backwardness” and 84% of them belong to the ‘non-creamy layer’ “which deserves… adequate reservation in employment and education as held in Indra Sawhney” case, says the Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission.
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		+	The report of the commission, headed by Justice (retd) Sunil Shukre, forms part of the state’s reply in HC to petitions raising a constitutional challenge to the 10% Socially and Educationally Backward Class (SEBC) Act for a Maratha quota in Maharashtra, reports Swati Deshpande.
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		+	It says the community has seen a “strong regression”.
		+	‘Backwardness of Marathas distinct & more pervasive’
		+	The MSBCC report on Marathas says since 2008, there has been a “strong regression” in the community across various aspects of life. Significant, it said, is the “dramatic” 57 percent increase” in ‘caste related inferiority’, a “drastic” 57% rise in suicide rate, both in the last decade, and an “alarming” 13% increase in girl child marriages since 2018 and almost 12% male child marriages in 2024.
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		+	“The sudden increase in child marriages suggests regression in social practices, likely driven by economic and social pressures, necessitates immediate intervention to protect child rights, promote education and empowerment for which reservation can be a critical tool,” the commission concluded on one of its terms of reference. The SC in a constitutional bench judgment had set a 50% ceiling for reservations, except in compelling or exceptional cases.
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		+	The panel said it surveyed data from 1,58,20,264 (or over 15 million) households in the state, 44% of which comprised ‘open category,’ including Marathas. Marathas constituted 44,29,673 households or 28% of those surveyed. The growth in suicide rate is “deplorable” and denotes the community needs a helping hand to enable it to join mainstream society, said the commission. Out of 8,635 farmer suicides between 2018 and 2023, Maratha farmers’ suicide deaths were 3,286 or 38%, the highest, based on a Feb 2024 report of revenue department, it mentioned.
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		+	In the last decade, Maratha suicides account for 94% of total 31,462 suicides in the state, said the commission citing data. The main reason is “indebtedness” and it shows the community is “reeling” and “almost completely dominates the darker side of life,” pushed to the edges, with only single-digit share in public jobs, steep rise from 8% to 31% of landless households in the last six years and 58% prevalence of ‘women indignity’ and greater superstitious practice index.
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		+	The report recommended the vulnerable Maratha community needs a separate percentage from existing reservation categories. Since there are already many castes in the 52% reservation in the state, it would be inequitable to place the Maratha 28% population in OBC category, it said. It added that in any case, backwardness of Maratha class is distinct from that of OBCs “in the sense it is more pervasive.”
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 =The Maratha community, as in 2023=
 [https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/in-maratha-reservation-issue-bjp-is-playing-with-fire-9011129/   Girish Kuber/ In Maratha reservation issue, BJP is playing with fire/ ''The Indian Express'' / November 3, 2023]
 Marathas, forming 33 per cent of Maharashtra’s population, are the strongest of all communities in the state. Eleven of the state’s 16 chief ministers have been Marathas. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and half of the 29-member cabinet are Marathas. In the education sector, most major private and deemed universities in the state, like the Bharati Vidyapeeth, D Y Patil University and the Pravara Institute Of Medical Sciences, are founded and run by Marathas.
 The Marathas are not a state-wide homogenous community. They are a loose cluster of communities scattered across the state. Historically, they have largely been involved in agrarian activities in peacetime. During wars, they served the armies of the regional princely states. This is why Marathas like to portray themselves as a “warrior community”. Warriors they were, but only during wars. The rest were essentially farmers, even farm labourers. The Maratha nomenclature, many historians have pointed out, came into being when the government enumerators clubbed all agrarian communities under this name.
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 [https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/in-maratha-reservation-issue-bjp-is-playing-with-fire-9011129/   Girish Kuber/ In Maratha reservation issue, BJP is playing with fire/ ''The Indian Express'' / November 3, 2023]
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		+	==As in 2023==
		+	[https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/in-maratha-reservation-issue-bjp-is-playing-with-fire-9011129/ Girish Kuber/ In Maratha reservation issue, BJP is playing with fire/ ''The Indian Express'' / November 3, 2023]
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		+	The BJP’s efforts to discipline the cooperative sector were perceived as anti-Maratha – many district cooperative banks in the state are fiefdoms of Maratha leaders. Though it’s a different story that Ajit Pawar has now been inducted into the saffron fold, he and a bunch of Maratha leaders provided the BJP the ruse for its anti-corruption facade. The BJP government also initiated investigations into various scams alleged to have taken place during the 15 years of Congress-NCP rule. The move was aimed at breaking the Maratha stronghold. It eventually resulted in many once-corrupt Maratha leaders finding salvation in the BJP.
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		+	The move had a political fallout. With dwindling agricultural income and shrinking political space, the frustrated Marathas lost hope. They took out marches all over the state. Though peaceful, around 50 marches over a period of a year showcased the Marathas’ strength and also underlined the distress in the community. At this juncture, the BJP-SS government in the state resurrected the reservation card to lure the community — hitherto strong backers of Congress and the Sharad Pawar-led NCP. Though the Congress-NCP government first attempted Maratha reservation in 2014, it didn’t pursue it. Hoping to win over the Marathas ahead of the 2019 state assembly elections, Fadnavis took up the issue abandoned by the Congress-NCP. The move backfired: The Supreme Court struck down the Maratha Reservation law for exceeding the 50 per cent cap. The SC noted that there were no “extraordinary circumstances” to give reservation to the Maratha community over the 50 per cent ceiling prescribed in its Indra Sawhney verdict.
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		+	The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress government also failed to convince the SC.
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		+	Thackeray was dethroned after Eknath Shinde walked out of the Shiv Sena to form a government with the BJP. With the new government in office that had a Maratha, Shinde, in the saddle, the community came calling again, this time with a little more aggression. This came in handy for the Opposition led by battle-hardened Sharad Pawar and bruised Uddhav Thackeray. The BJP had accused Thackeray of inept handling of the Maratha reservation issue before the SC. It is now payback time for Thackeray who extended support to the agitating Marathas.
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		+	Besides these political machinations, the Maratha reservation issue has a social aspect that is equally, if not more, complicated. That the Marathas are a heterogeneous community complicates the matter. In Marathwada and Vidarbha, the Marathas are considered Kunbis, who are recognised as OBCs. But in western Maharashtra, they are not identified as Kunbis. Moreover, OBCs abhor the idea of sharing the already shrinking reservation pie with the dominant Marathas. Some OBC organisations have wasted no time in flexing their muscles to ward off any move for a Maratha quota.
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 ====After  Shiva-ji====
 His son Shambhuji ruled for a short period of time. His second son Rajaram (who was married to the daugther of Shiva-ji's Supreme commander ParatapRao Gujar) took the charge after it. He also died fighting Mughals, His wife 'The Barve Tarabai'  ruled the Marathas as a representative of her son and started many campaigns against Mughals. After that Pehswas, Holkars, Gayakwads and Shindes came into power one after the other and razed the Mughals kingdom at last.
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 Maratha's Royalty only based only on Royal 96 kuli clan Configuration and not  on Panch kuli or saptakuli .
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 and train the soldiery.^
 ^ Elphinstone's Histojy, 7th ed. p. 748. ^ Ibidem, p. 753.
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