 However, the recent threads can be picked up when the Mughal rule over the city came to an end in 1732, when Pilaji brought the Maratha activities in Southern Gujarat to a head and captured it.Except for a short break, Vadodara continued to be in the hands of the Gaekwads from 1734 to 1949.The greatest period in the Maratha rule of Vadodara started with the accession of Maharaja Sayajirao III in 1875.