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‘This Anglo-Maratha War covering nearly nine years from the murder of Narayan Rao to the Treaty of Salbye emphatically discloses the vitality of the Maratha nation which had not been exhausted either by the disaster of Panipat or the death of their great Peshwa Madhavrao.’ Comment.

  • UPSC 1995
  • British Expansion in India

The First Anglo-Maratha War (1775–1782) is being read here as proof that Maratha power, far from broken by earlier disasters, remained formidable enough to fight the rising English Company to a draw.

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