UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2004 · Q1(a) · 20 marks
'The Treaty of Salbai (1782) was neither honorable to the English nor advantageous to their interests.'
- Chapter
- British Expansion in India
- Topic
- First Anglo-Maratha War and the Treaty of Salbai
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