The Marathas, 1600-1818 / Stewart Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Stewart, 1945- author.

Series:

New Cambridge history of India ; II, 4.

The new Cambridge history of India ; II, 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maratha (Indic people)--History.

Maratha (Indic people).

India--History--1526-1765.

India.

India--History--18th century.

India--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 202 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Summary:

In this book, Dr Stewart Gordon presents a comprehensive history of one of the most colourful and least-understood kingdoms of India: the Maratha Empire. The empire was founded by Shivaji in the mid-seventeenth century, spread across most of India during the following century, and was conquered by the British in the nineteenth century. Using administrative documents of the Maratha polity, family papers and Histories of the Empire, Stewart Gordon explores the origin of the Marathas, their emergence as elite families, patterns of loyalty and strategies for maintaining legitimacy. He traces how the armies developed into European-style infantry and artillery and assesses the economics that funded the polity, especially taxation and credit. Finally the author considers the lasting effects the empire had on administrations, law and trade patterns of Central India, Gujarat and Maharashtra.

Contents:

Glossary

Introduction: historiography and bibliography

The geopolitics of Maharashtra

Marathas and the Deccan sultanates

Shivaji (1630-80) and the Maratha polity

Family responses to invasion (1680-1719)

Baji Rao I's northern expansion (1720-1740)

Conquest to administration (1740-1760)

Centripetal forces (1760-1803)

Epilogue (1803-1818)

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781139055666 (ebook)

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