UPSC History Optional · Paper I · 1983 · Q8 · 60 marks
How far did Peshwa Bajirao I succeed in establishing Maratha supremacy in the Deccan and political hegemony in the North?
- Chapter
- The Eighteenth Century
- Topic
- Maratha Expansion, the Peshwas and the Confederacy
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