This is a pioneering work in which the nature of Maratha power in eighteenth century in India has been carefully analyzed. The political domination of the Indian subcontinent by the Maratha sardars was so comprehensive that the terms Maratha history and eighteenth century Indian history are, by and large, synonymous. However the transformation of the real authority at the centre from the Chatrapati to the Peshva and then to the Karbhari weakened the Chatrapati, ...
