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HISTORY The city of Satara was the seat of the former Maratha Maharaja s, the nominal rulers of the Maratha empire until its conquest by Britain in 1818 . The Maratha empire was founded by Shivaji in the 17th century. His descendants had lost effective control of the Maratha state by the mid- 18th Century , which had passed to the Peshwa s, who moved the capital to Pune in 1749 . After their victory in the Third Anglo-Maratha War in 1818, the British annexed most of the Maratha territory to Bombay Presidency , but restored the titular raja Pratap Singh , and assigned to him the principality of Satara, with an area much larger than the present district. As a result of political intrigues, he was deposed in 1839 , and his brother Shahji Raja was placed on the throne. This prince, dying without male heirs in 1848 , Satara was annexed by the British government, and added to Bombay Presidency. EXTERNAL LINKS
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