The History Of The Mahrattas - Vol III

James Grant Duff

• Publisher: Normanby Press
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781782892359
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Indian & South Asian History
• Index: History

The power of India reached its pre-British Raj height under the Maratha Empire or the Maratha Confederacy which was an Indian imperial power that existed from 1674 to 1818. At its peak, the empire covered much of India, encompassing a territory of over 2.8 million km². The Marathas are credited for ending the Mughal rule in India.
The Marathas were a yeoman warrior group from the western Deccan that rose to prominence during the rule of the Adil Shahi dynasty and Ahmadnagar Sultanate. The empire was founded by Shivaji Bhosle, who formally crowned himself Chhatrapati ("Emperor") with Raigad as his capital in 1674, and successfully fought against the Mughal Empire. The Maratha Empire waged war for 27 years with the Mughals from 1681 to 1707, which became the longest war in the history of India. Shivaji, pioneered "Shiva sutra" or Ganimi Kava (guerrilla tactics), which leveraged strategic factors like demographics, speed, surprise and focused attack to defeat his bigger and more powerful enemies. After the death of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, the empire expanded greatly under the rule of the Peshwas. The empire at its peak stretched from Tamil Nadu in the south, to Peshawar (modern-day Pakistan) on the Afghanistan border in the north, and Bengal and Andaman Islands in east. In 1761, the Maratha army lost the Third Battle of Panipat to Abdali's Afghan Durrani Empire, which halted their imperial expansion. Ten years after Panipat, young Madhavrao Peshwa reinstated the Maratha authority over North India. In a bid to effectively manage the large empire, he gave semi-autonomy to the strongest of the knights, which created a confederacy of Maratha states. In 1775, the British East India Company intervened in a succession struggle in Pune, which became the First Anglo-Maratha War. Marathas remained the preeminent power in India until their defeat in the Second and Third Anglo-Maratha wars (1805–1818), which left the British East India Company in control of most of India.

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Chapter I - From 1784 to 1787
• Chapter II - From 1785 to 1790
• Chapter III - From 1787 to 1792
• Chapter IV - From 1792 to 1794
• Chapter V - 1794
• Chapter VI - From 1794 to 1795
• Chapter VII - From 1795 to 1796
• Chapter VIII - From 1797 to 1798
• Chapter IX - From 1798 to 1800
• Chapter X - From 1800 to 1802
• Chapter XI - From 1793 to 1803
• Chapter XII - From 1802 to 1803
• Chapter XIII - 1804
• Chapter XIV - From 1805 to 1806
• Chapter XV - From 1806 to 1814
• Chapter XVI - From 1808 to 1817
• Chap XVII - From 1814 to 1817
• Chapter XVIII - From 1817 to 1818
• Chapter XIX - From 1817 to 1818
• Chapter XX - From 1818 to 1819
• MAPS