The 'Maratha Period' of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in Indian history. Prachi Deshpande examines the invocation of this period in various political projects, including anticolonial Hindu nationalism and the Non-Brahman Movement, as well as popular debates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries over the meanings of traditions, culture, colonialism and ...