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Historical person
1779–1827
Daulat Rao Scindia was the Maratha ruler of Gwalior during the expansion of British power in India. His forces fought the East India Company in the Second Anglo-Maratha War, suffering major defeats including Assaye and Laswari before accepting restrictive treaties.
Anthony Morland’s The Maratha Checkmate places Daulat Rao Scindia within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making, political ambition and government, and family, marriage and personal loyalty.
Historical context
Series
The Life of William Culpepper follows a fictional British officer from the Revolutionary Wars in Europe into the East India Company’s campaigns in India. The sequence begins with the Flanders campaign and the Battle of Boxtel, then moves through the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, the unstable aftermath of Tipu…
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