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The Marathas 1600–1818

Series The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 2.4

Author Stewart Gordon

Publication Date 1993

Hardback ISBN-10
0521268834

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521268837

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521268837

Overview

In this book, Dr Stewart Gordon presents a comprehensive history of one of the most colourful 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.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction: historiography and bibliography

The Geopolitics of Maharashtra

Marathas and the Deccan Sultanates

Shivaji (1630–80) and the Maratha polity

Responses to family invasion (1680–1719)

Baji Rao I's northern expansion (1720–1740)

Conquest to administration (1740–1760)

Centripetal forces (1760–1803)

Epilogue (1803–1818)

Conclusions

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