UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1991 · Q1(a) · 20 marks
‘This Anglo-Maratha War covering nearly nine years from the murder of Narayan Rao to the Treaty of Salbye emphatically discloses the vitality of the Maratha nation which had not been exhausted either by the disaster of Panipat or the death of their great Peshwa Madhavrao.’
- Chapter
- British Expansion in India
- Topic
- First Anglo-Maratha War and the Treaty of Salbai
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