What does the term "Kunbis" refer to in the context of Maratha society?
A group of peasant-pastoralists
In Maratha society, the term Kunbis referred to a group of peasant-pastoralists engaged primarily in agriculture and cattle-rearing. The Maratha ruling elite often traced their origins to Kunbi agrarian communities, and over time many prosperous Kunbi families rose to Maratha status through land control and military service. This social mobility was a distinctive feature of Maratha state formation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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