Guna

Guna lies on the eastern side of the Malwa region, a plateau crossed by routes through central India. The wider region passed through the rule of the Malwa sultans, the Mughals and Maratha houses. Mandu became a sultans' capital, and Mughal rule followed Akbar's conquest of Malwa in the sixteenth century. As Mughal authority weakened, Maratha influence expanded; the defeat of Maratha powers in 1818 brought major political changes.