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Historical person
1776–1811
Yashwantrao Holkar was a Maratha ruler and commander who resisted both rival Maratha leaders and the British East India Company. He defeated forces of Scindia and the peshwa, occupied Pune and fought the British during the Second Anglo-Maratha War before negotiating peace.
Anthony Morland’s The Maratha Checkmate places Yashwantrao Holkar 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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