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A History of India from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

1939

and the Maratha Bahadur Shah; Rajput and SE& rebellions.—Feeble successors and the rapid decline of the Em.I—The rise of Hderabad The Maratha revival under the Peshwss; the Angria pirates.— Invasion of Nadir Shah; battle of Kernel and the sack of Delhi 1739; results of the invasion.-The Maratha bid for supremacy; defeat of the Confederacy at Panipat 1761 Billiography. 289 CHAPTER THIRTEEN Fren [...] The Nizam completely defeated Mubariz in the autumn of r724 and sent his head to court with a congratulatory letter on the victory obtained by the imperial arms' But after the battle of Shaker Khera the Nizam exercised every prerogative of sovereignty except the use of the imperial scarlet umbrella the recitation of the Friday prayer in his own name and the issue of coinage stamped with his own [...] Here he was practically surrounded and within six weeks of the opening of the campaign he signed a convention giving the Peshwa the whole of Mahva the absolute sovereignty of the country between the Narbada and the Chambal and an indemnity of fifty lakhs of rupees ' equivalent to &moo° sterling. [...] After the battle the Nizam the key of the State of India " was sent to open peace negotiations; and on the 7thr March the Persian king and Muhammad Shah entered Delhi together to settle the terms of the indemnity. [...] In the time of Baji Rao the Maratha government had refused the opportunity to ally itself to the Rajput States and so present a united Hindu front to the Modem powers; and the campaigning methods of the Marathas were calclated to arouse the hostility of the peasantry?
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Frontmatter
i-vii George Dunbar view
Chapter XII The Later Moguls and the Marathas
289-309 George Dunbar view
Chapter XIII French and English in the Carnatic
310-333 George Dunbar view
Chapter XIV The English in Bengal
334-363 George Dunbar view
Chapter XV The Expansion of the East India Company
364-405 George Dunbar view
Chapter XVI Development of the British Connection
406-453 George Dunbar view
Chapter XVII British Supremacy
454-478 George Dunbar view
Chapter XVIII Consolidation of British Rule
479-522 George Dunbar view
Chapter XIX India Under the Crown
523-589 George Dunbar view
Chapter XX Progress Towards Respansible Government
590-iii George Dunbar view
Index
651-669 George Dunbar view

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