Karnataka Government. Retrieved 4 October D or after Jesus Christ. Looking backward from ample material on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, we know that Maratha as a category of caste represents the amalgamation of families from several castes - Kunbi, Lohar, Sutar, Bhandari, Thakar, and even Dhangars shepherds — which existed in the seventeenth century and, indeed, exist as castes in Maharashtra today. Archived from the original on 19 September
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