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Twenty years of peace secured by the treaty of Salbai proved very costly to the Marathas in strategic terms. Elucidate.

  • UPSC 2024
  • British Expansion in India

The Treaty of Salbai (1782), ending the First Anglo-Maratha War (1775–1782), is usually read as a Maratha diplomatic success — yet the two decades of peace it secured ultimately worked far more to British advantage than to Maratha benefit.

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  • How the British Used the Peace
  • How the Marathas Failed to Use the Same Peace
  • Economic and Diplomatic Costs
  • The Strategic Reckoning

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