MARATHA WAR PICKS

The Marathas were an Indo-Aryan group of Hindu warriors and peasants

The Moguls power in India was coming to an end as Marathas, Rajputs, Sikhs, and Peshwas defeated them, causing the rapid decline of the Mogul Empire. The Marathas were defeated by the British in the Third Anglo-Maratha War of 1817-1818.

In June 1818, Maratha power was finally crushed, and the leader Baji Rao was pensioned off and shipped north of Bithur, a place near Uttar Pradesh province, which would become one of the centres of the 1857 mutiny, the first war against the British.

Paris P. Ogilvie : "They're Maratha crow-bill war Picks from India. Very rare."