The Third Anglo Maratha War (1817/1818) dealt the final blow to whatever was left of the Maratha Empire after the debacles of the Second Anglo Maratha War (1803). The East India Company combined...

Since 1795, things had been on downward spiral for the Marathas. With the deaths of Sawai Madhavrao,  Mahadji Shinde and Nana Phadnavis, there was a leadership vacuum, only exacerbated by the inexperience of...

“ In the desperate valour with which it was contested by both sides , in the equality of the numbers engaged , and in the proportion of numbers lost , the Battle of...

It is generally assumed that India went from the Mughals to the British in the nineteenth century. Nothing could be farther than the truth. For it was the Maratha empire that governed much...

Chhatrapati Shivaji was one of the greatest men to be born in this country. His exemplary vision and courage gave us “swarajya” from the clutches of Mughals and Turkic sultanates. A lot has been written...

In 1779, a series of battles were fought between the British and the Marathas. Pune fought for its very survival and the Wadgaon battle marked the high point of the Nana – Mahadji...

Chhatrapati Shivaji's greatest test came a decade after his death. It came the moment his illustrious son – Chhatrapati Sambhaji was killed. All problems which had sent powerful Indian kings and their kingdoms...

Here, a definition of “India” is essential; and India needs to be seen in terms of a civilizational nation. Meaning, that the civilization from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Balochistan to Burma is the same. There are...