Maratha exist ?

[Trin Tragula]

It exists. Events generate revolter cores after a certain date.
As with all things that far from the start date it's not likely things will play out "historically" though.
I'd like to do something to make it a bit more fleshed out in the future.

If you check the later historical start dates you'll see the serious Maratha states though

 

[Trin Tragula]

There are two events related to the Marathas, only one requires the Mughals (which doesn't make much sense). The other requires sultanates to control the region.

 

[Trin Tragula]

I should add that I found and did fixed some issues with these events for the next patch a while ago, they're very old and some of the triggers where either too strict or even impossible (the Mughal version of the event).

The Marathas where major players in India and has their own idea set so it'd be nice to see them more often

 

[Trin Tragula]

They can revolt as Hindu but if you give it a few months they'll likely have a Muslim coupe.
They also should not actually form with sultanate ideas if Hindu if I recall the trigger for that NI group right. If I'm wrong, please bug report that