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It would have been very different on account of the various developments that took place.

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The name Maharashtra, meaning "western upland," originally appeared in a 7th-century inscription and in the report of Xuanzang, a Chinese traveller of the time. One theory proposes that the name was given by a group of northern warriors who were so skilled that they travelled south and gave the place its current name, maharishi (great chariot driver). After blending with the language of the original Naga settlers, this group's tongue evolved into Maharashtra, which, by the eighth century, had become the modern language of Marathi. However, people were constantly moving in from faraway places like Central Asia and the islands of Greece.

Several Hindu kingdoms, including the Satavahana, Vakataka, Kalacuri, Rashtrakuta, Chalukya, and Yadava, fought over the land, now the Indian state of Maharashtra, during this time. After the year 1307, several different Muslim dynasties took control. As the Muslim court language, Persian had a significant impact on the development of the Marathi language. By the middle of the 16th century, Muslim power in Maharashtra had splintered among various autonomous kings who constantly fought with one another. A famous leader, Shivaji, was born in 1627 among all that upheaval. Through his extraordinary abilities, Shivaji established a massive Maratha kingdom that rocked the foundations of Mughal rule from Delhi.

The Maratha confederacy, an alliance founded after Shivaji's empire crumbled significant unified portions of western and central India and parts of the north and east during the 18th century. Europeans have been present along the shore since the early 16th century. The British took over Bombay Island in 1661, and the Marathas on the mainland gave in to British rule, slowly but surely beginning in the early 19th century. The British then set up an administrative region there, and it was called the Bombay Presidency. Bombay State replaced the province as India's capital after independence was won in 1947. (1950). Later, several smaller princely realms, notably Baroda [now Vadodara], were absorbed into the more significant state.

During the linguistic and political reorganisation of the states of peninsular India that began on November 1, 1956, Bombay state gained considerable portions of Madhya Pradesh and the northwestern part of the broken-up Hyderabad state (which had been formed after Indian independence from the former Hyderabad princely state). Even after the restructuring, most Gujarati speakers remained in the north, and most Marathi speakers remained in the country's south. Gujarat was established in the northern portion of the state on May 1, 1960, and Maharashtra was renamed to reflect its location in the south after the two language groups' demanded that the state be split into two parts was met. Part of Maharashtra, Bombay, is now the capital of the newly formed state. Around the middle of the twentieth century, the city adopted the name Mumbai.

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Balwant Yashwantrao Chavan

Since the state's independence, the Indian National Congress has held a strong position in the state's government (Congress Party). Morarji Desai, who was chief minister from 1952 to 1956 and later prime minister of India from 1977 to 1979, and Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan, who was chief minister from 1956 to 1962, were two of the state's early and widely admired leaders for their work to modernise the state's economic and social policies. The Congress Party's authority was interrupted for four years (1995–1999) by the pro-Hindu Shiv Sena ("Army of Shiva") party, formed and long ruled by journalist Bal Thackeray. This occurred during the period when Sharad Pawar put together an anti-Congress coalition (1978–1980). After the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a pro-Hindu party like the Shiv Sena won a plurality of seats in the 2014 state legislative elections and was able to form a ruling coalition, the Congress party's power seemed to decline. A team formed by the Shiv Sena and supported by Congress defeated the BJP in the 2019 elections, even though the BJP maintained a plurality of the vote. However, tensions arose inside the Shiv Sena, and by 2022, the party had formed a new alliance with the BJP.

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