Which of the following factors contributed to rise of Maratha power?

1.    Geography of Maharashtra protected by the Narmada and the Tapti rivers with numerous easily defensible hill forts.

2.    Its meager agricultural resources, kept the Marathas immune from the vices of luxury and idleness

3.    Concept of the dignity of work which had been repeatedly emphasized by saints like Tukaram, Ramdas etc helped germination of the seeds of a renaissance or self-awakening

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