Mahrattas, a warlike Hindu race in Central India, occupying a territory watered by the Nerbudda, Godavari, and Kistna, who at one time kept up a struggle for the supremacy of India with the British, but were finally subdued in 1843.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Mahoun * Maï, Angelo