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This essay discusses the Anglo-Maratha Campaigns of 1803 and the contest for control of the South Asian military economy. The Marathas were a powerful military force, but they were not able to stop the British from taking control of much of India. The real contest for control of India was the struggle to control the South Asian military economy, not a single decisive military battle. Victory depended more on economics and intelligence than on superiority in discipline, drill and technology.
The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns of 1803 represented the last serious indigenous obstacle to the formation of the British Raj. This study examines Maratha military culture through a battle-by-battle analysis of the campaigns. Randolf Cooper challenges the ethnocentric assumptions that associate Western political ascendancy with "The Military Revolution" and argues that the real contest for India was the struggle to control the South Asian military economy, rather than a single decisive military battle. Victory depended more on economics and intelligence than on superiority in discipline, drill and technology.
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