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Author Gordon, Stewart, 1945-

Title The Marathas, 1600-1818 / Stewart Gordon
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 202 pages) : maps
Series New Cambridge history of India ; II, 4
New Cambridge history of India ; II, 4.
Contents Glossary -- Introduction: historiography and bibliography -- The geopolitics of Maharashtra -- Marathas and the Deccan sultanates -- Shivaji (1630-80) and the Maratha polity -- Family responses to invasion (1680-1719) -- Baji Rao I's northern expansion (1720-1740) -- Conquest to administration (1740-1760) -- Centripetal forces (1760-1803) -- Epilogue (1803-1818) -- Conclusion
Summary Presents a comprehensive history of one of the most colorful and least-understood kingdoms of India: the Maratha Empire. The empire was founded by Shivaji in the mid-seventeenth century, spread across most of India during the following century, and was conquered by the British in the nineteenth century. Using administrative documents of the Maratha polity, family papers and Histories of the Empire, Stewart Gordon explores the origin of the Marathas, their emergence as elite families, patterns of loyalty and strategies for maintaining legitimacy. He traces how the armies developed into European-style infantry and artillery and assesses the economics that funded the polity, especially taxation and credit. Finally the author considers the lasting effects the empire had on administrations, law and trade patterns of Central India, Gujarat and Maharashtra
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Maratha (Indic people) -- History
Maratha (Indic people)
Mahratten.
SUBJECT India -- History -- 1526-1765. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064913
India -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064914
India -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064919
Subject India
India.
Brits Indiƫ.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511468742
0511468741
9781139055666
1139055666
9781139055666
0521056268
9780521056267