Third Anglo-Maratha War
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The Third Anglo-Maratha War was the final and decisive conflict between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire. The war left the Company in control of most of India. It began with an in
The Battle of Nagpore by Robert Woolf c.1817
Mountstuart Elphinstone
Ruins of the old palace at Raigad Fort
Portrait of Lord Moira (Joshua Reynolds, 1790)
Pratap Singh of Satara
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Pratap Singh Bhonsle was the last Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire from 1808 until the empire's overthrow and his abdication in 1818, following the Third Anglo-Maratha War. He was later made the Raja
Third Anglo-Maratha War
…power. Thus Hastings redrew the map of India to a state which remained more or less unaltered until the time of Lord Dalhousie. The British recognised Pratap Singh (Raja of Satara), a direct descendant of Shivaji as the ceremonial head of the Maratha Confederacy. Raghuji Bhonsle III, then not even ten years old, was appointed as…
A potrait of Pratap Singh in 1808
Pratap Singh's Royal Seal and Endscript seal