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.
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