IGNOU HISTORY NOTES : India History From Mid 18th to Mid 19th Century - Anglo-Maratha and Mysore Wars

IGNOU HISTORY Study Notes for IAS, UPSC Exams

History India From Mid 18th to Mid 19th Century

Anglo-Maratha and Mysore Wars

Structure

10.0 ,Objdves
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Stnrggle for Supremacy : Indian States and the Brit&h
10.3 Mpre Wars
10.4 Maratha wars
10.5 Indian States : Reasons for Failure'
10.6 Let Us Sum Up
10.7 Answers to Check Your Progress Exercises

10.6 OBJECTIVES

This Unit introduces you to the expalulion of the British rule in Mysore and the
Maratha state. After reading this Unit you will be able,to :
understand the nature of struggle for power in Mysore and Maratha state,
learn about the process of subjugation of Mysore and the Maratha state to the
British imperial system, and
identify the factors responsible for the failure of the Indian states against the
Britah.

16.1 INTRODUCTION

In Block 1 you have d about the emergence of Mpre and the Maratha state
system following the disintegration of the Mughal empire in the course of the
ei8hteenth century. The same period also witnessed the gradual penetration of the
European colonial powers into the Indian sub-continent. This resulted in growing
struggle between two forces, the Indian regional states and the colonial power, in
late eighteenth and early nineteenth century India for possession of political '
supremacy. In this Unit we will try to make a critical appraisal of the struggle
ktween the British and Mysore and the Maratha state.