Author: James Grant DuffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
A History of the Mahrattas
Author: James Grant DuffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
A History Of The Mahrattas Vol III
Author: James Grant DuffPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021388285
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Duff provides a comprehensive history of the Mahratta Empire, from its origins to its eventual decline. This work offers valuable insights into the political, military, and cultural forces that shaped one of India's most enduring dynasties. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The History Of The Mahrattas -
Author: James Grant DuffPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782892346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
The power of India reached its pre-British Raj height under the Maratha Empire or the Maratha Confederacy which was an Indian imperial power that existed from 1674 to 1818. At its peak, the empire covered much of India, encompassing a territory of over 2.8 million km2. The Marathas are credited for ending the Mughal rule in India. The Marathas were a yeoman warrior group from the western Deccan that rose to prominence during the rule of the Adil Shahi dynasty and Ahmadnagar Sultanate. The empire was founded by Shivaji Bhosle, who formally crowned himself Chhatrapati ("Emperor") with Raigad as his capital in 1674, and successfully fought against the Mughal Empire. The Maratha Empire waged war for 27 years with the Mughals from 1681 to 1707, which became the longest war in the history of India. Shivaji, pioneered "Shiva sutra" or Ganimi Kava (guerrilla tactics), which leveraged strategic factors like demographics, speed, surprise and focused attack to defeat his bigger and more powerful enemies. After the death of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, the empire expanded greatly under the rule of the Peshwas. The empire at its peak stretched from Tamil Nadu in the south, to Peshawar (modern-day Pakistan) on the Afghanistan border in the north, and Bengal and Andaman Islands in east. In 1761, the Maratha army lost the Third Battle of Panipat to Abdali’s Afghan Durrani Empire, which halted their imperial expansion. Ten years after Panipat, young Madhavrao Peshwa reinstated the Maratha authority over North India. In a bid to effectively manage the large empire, he gave semi-autonomy to the strongest of the knights, which created a confederacy of Maratha states. In 1775, the British East India Company intervened in a succession struggle in Pune, which became the First Anglo-Maratha War. Marathas remained the preeminent power in India until their defeat in the Second and Third Anglo-Maratha wars (1805–1818), which left the British East India Company in control of most of India.
A History of the Maratha People (Volume II)
Author: C. A. KincaidPublisher:
ISBN: 9789354033513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A History of the Mahrattas
Author: James Grant DuffPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108073018
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Written by Scots historian James Grant Duff, this 1826 publication describes the history of the Marathi people in India.
A History of the Mahrattas
Author: James Grant DuffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
A History of the Mahrattas
Author: James Grant DuffPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781542496612
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
A History of the Mahrattas by James Grant Duff. The want of a complete history of the rise, progress, and decline of our immediate predecessors in conquest, the Mahrattas, has been long felt by all persons conversant with the affairs of India; in so much, that it is very generally acknowledged, we cannot fully understand the means by which our own vast empire in that quarter was acquired, until this desideratum be supplied. Maharashtra is the native country of the people whose history it is now proposed to trace. Different limits are assigned to this great portion of the Deccan. According to the Tutwa, one of the books of the Jotush Shaster, or Hindoo Astronomy, Maharashtra extends no farther than the Chandore range of hills, where Kolwun, Buglana, and Candeish are represented as its northern boundary, and all beyond those countries is indiscriminately termed Vendhiadree. James Grant Duff (1789-1858) was a British soldier, and historian from Scotland who was active in British India.
A History of the Mahrattas
Author: Edward Scott WaringPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deccan (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
19th Century Maharashtra
Author: Shraddha KumbhojkarPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527561232
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Maharashtra in the nineteenth century exhibits all the characteristics of a society standing at the crossroads of civilization. Western education, press, industrialisation and material changes in production and consumption patterns resulted in fundamental changes in the thinking of the people. The first half of the nineteenth century witnessed the beginning of the Postal Service in 1837, rise and spread of the native press and rudimentary education. The second half witnessed more dramatic events such as the coming of the Railways and the establishment of the of Indian National Congress that changed the destiny of the subcontinent forever. The book takes a fresh look at the various aspects of nineteenth century Maharashtra. It includes the critiques and reviews of literature, language, history writing and women’s reforms in this period. It argues that the elite attempts at social reform had their own inherent limitations. They could not reach the level of radicality reached by the subalterns whose lived experience of discrimination was the biggest stimulus for reform. Mahatma Phule stands out from among a range of thinkers in this period for his innovative understanding of the Indian reality. Phule was one of the rare thinkers who reconciled the Indian reality with its Universal counterpart.
Asiatic researches or transactions of the Society instituted in Bengal, for inquiring into the history and antiquities, the arts, sciences, and literature, of Asia
Author: Asiatic Society of BengalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description