An Eighteenth-Century Apparition
The last serious challenge to British power in Hindustan had ended with the Battle of Buxar in 1764. While the Peshwas, the Nizam and, above all, the Sultans of Mysore would continue to resist the Pax Brittanica in the Deccan for many more decades, in the fertile Gangetic valley of Hindustan no one any longer … [Read more…]
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