UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2024 · Q3(c) · 10 marks
Twenty years of peace secured by the treaty of Salbai proved very costly to the Marathas in strategic terms. – Elucidate 10 Marks
- Chapter
- British Expansion in India
- Topic
- First Anglo-Maratha War and the Treaty of Salbai
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