The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India
The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India
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USDThe 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.
- 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
Reviews & endorsements
"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
"No less than a revolutionary book." Itinerario
Product details
April 2004Hardback
9780521824446
456 pages
236 × 159 × 34 mm
0.84kg
11 maps
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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.
