The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India
The Struggle for Control of the South Asian Military Economy
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- Author: Randolf G. S. Cooper, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: June 2007
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- isbn: 9780521036467
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The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns of 1803 represented the last serious indigenous obstacle to the formation of the British Raj. This study examines Maratha military culture through a battle-by-battle analysis of the campaigns. Randolf Cooper challenges the ethnocentric assumptions that associate Western political ascendancy with "The Military Revolution" and argues that the real contest for India was the struggle to control the South Asian military economy, rather than a single decisive military battle. Victory depended more on economics and intelligence than on superiority in discipline, drill and technology.
Read more- An interesting account of the last major indigenous challenge to the establishment of the British Raj
- Challenges existing assumptions about British superiority in discipline, drill and technology
- A major contribution to British military history beyond Europe in the Napoleonic period, and to the political economy of warfare in South Asia
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"Drawing on a wide reading of British and Indian material, and displaying a commendable ability to understand the different military cultures of the combatants, this important book will not only be the leading work on its subject, but also one of more general interest." Journal of Military History
See more reviews"No less than a revolutionary book." Itinerario
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- Date Published: June 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521036467
- length: 456 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 28 mm
- weight: 0.682kg
- contains: 11 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of maps
Acknowledgements
A note on transliteration and references
List of abbreviations used in the references
Introduction
1. Maratha military culture
2. British perceptions and the road to war in 1803
3. The Deccan campaign of 1803
4. The Hindustan campaign of 1803
5. 'Coming in'
6. The anatomy of victory
Appendix I: chronology of Anglo-South Asian wars
Appendix II: British troop strengths and casualties for the Hindustan and Deccan campaigns 1803
Appendix III: Governor-General Wellesley's 'Maratha' proclamation of 1803
Appendix IV: mercenary pension records
Appendix V: the Marathas' employment of mercenaries in historic perspective
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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