Why did the Marathas wanted to expand beyond the Deccan?
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The Marathas wanted to expand beyond the Deccan in order to decrease the Mughal infulence. By the 1720s, they seized Malwa and Gujarat from the Mughals and by the 1730s, the Maratha king was recognised as the overlord of the entire Deccan peninsula.
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