UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1984 · Q2 · 60 marks
Trace the course of the Anglo-Maratha relations in the first two decades of the nineteenth century. Account for the ultimate defeat of the Maratha power by the British.
- Chapter
- British Expansion in India
- Topic
- Fall of the Marathas
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