马哈拉施特拉邦，印度历史上中西部的一个地区。从14世纪早期到17世纪中期由印度的穆斯林统治者控制，到19世纪被英国人并入孟买省。说马拉地语的那部分地区在1960年成为一个独立的邦

• a historical region of west-central India. It was controlled by the Moslem rulers of India from the early14th to the mid-17th century and incorporated by the British into the province of Bombay in the19th century. The Marathi-speaking section of the region became a separate state in 1960