List of Anglo-Maratha Wars

By the second half of the 18th century, the Marathas controlled over three-quarters of the Indian subcontinent. With the East India Company gradually pushing the economic and political influence of its three Presidencies ever inward, a clash was inevitable. Once theBritish began to engage the Marathas militarily, the conflict process flared sporadically for two generations, stretching from the Treaty of Surat in 1775 until the Pindari War in 1817. In fighting this series of Anglo-Maratha wars the East India Company in effect accelerated the disintegration of the Maratha Confederacy that was the indigenous heir to India?s military fortunes. Those unfamiliar with South Asian history often find it difficult to trace the Anglo-Maratha Wars as they overlap with the Third and Fourth Anglo-Mysore Wars in which the Marathas were British allies and neutrals respectively. The chronology of the major wars is as follows:

Related Topics:
Marathas - India - British - Treaty of Surat - Pindari War

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• First Anglo-Maratha War (1775-1782)
• Third Anglo-Mysore War (1789?1792)
• Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798-1799)
• Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803)
• Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817?1818)