UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1998 · Q1(a) · 20 marks
The British “fought the First Maratha War in a period when their fortunes were at the lowest ebb“.
- Chapter
- British Expansion in India
- Topic
- First Anglo-Maratha War and the Treaty of Salbai
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