A royal family of the Maratha confederacy, who ruled the Princely State of Baroda (now Vadodara) in present-day Gujarat. They were credited with several commercial successes and social reforms in the region. They acceded to the union of India after independence in 1947.
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A dynasty that ruled the kingdom of Hyderabad from 1734 until its deposition in 1948 in independent India. The members…
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A dynasty that ruled over areas of present-day Kerala and Tamil Nadu from c. second century BCE. There were multiple…
Fundamentalist Islamic militant group that emerged in Afghanistan in the early 1990s, following the end of the Soviet-Afghan War. Taleban…
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A form of pre-modern state which had a subordinate relationship to a superior state and maintained its sovereignty by making…