Summary of the Mahratta and Pindarree Campaign During 1817, 1818, and 1819.
Summary of the Mahratta and Pindarree Campaign During 1817, 1818, and 1819.

Author: Anon

Publisher:

Published: 2009-11

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9781845747367

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The Anon, ymous author of this account of the Mahratta and Pindarree Campaign probably wrote his book under the pen name 'Carnaticus' because of his trenchant and unsparing criticism of his superior officers and their conduct of the campaigns. He was actually an Irish officer in the Madras Army named Marshal Clarke. Born in 1789, Clarke died at the early age of 44 in Peronne, northern France on his way home from India. His book - accompanied by beautifully engraved maps - was first published in 1820 and gives a clear and lengthy account of the operations in 1817, 1818, and 1819 of the armies of the East India Company - particularly the Army of the Deckan - under the orders of the Marquis of Hastings and the direct command of Lt.-Gen. Sir T. Hislop. This is a rare book which will be of compelling interest to all students of the early British Raj and the Indian Wars

The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India
The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India

Author: Randolf G. S. Cooper

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780521824446

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This is a cross-cultural study of the political economy of war in South Asia. Randolf G. S. Cooper combines an overview of Maratha military culture with a battle-by-battle analysis of the 1803 Anglo-Maratha Campaigns. Building on that foundation he challenges ethnocentric assumptions about British superiority in discipline, drill and technology. He argues that these campaigns, in which Arthur Wellesley served with distinction, represent the military high-water mark of the Marathas who posed the last serious opposition to the formation of the British Raj. Dr Cooper asserts that the real contest for India was never a single decisive battle for the subcontinent. Rather it turned on a complex social and political struggle for control of the South Asian military economy. The author shows that victory in 1803 hinged as much on finance, diplomacy, politics and intelligence as it did on battlefield manoeuvre and war itself.