For nearly a century, Portugal had a monopoly on the lucrative Eastern trade. She established tradin...

INDIA'S trade relations with Europe date back to the Greeks' early days. Several routes were used to...

HAIDAR ALI:   •    Mysore, after Hyderabad, was the most important power in so...

BENGAL   •    Taking advantage of the central authority's growing weakness, tw...

In the 18th century, social life and culture were characterised by stagnation and a reliance on the ...

India in the 18th century did not progress at a rate that would have saved the country from collapse...

A large number of independent and semi-independent powers arose from the ruins of the Mughal Empire ...

When Raghunath Rao returned to North India in early 1757, he made no attempt to form a coalition of ...

Between 1741 and 1761, there were two distinct periods. From 1741 to 1752, the first phase took plac...

Gujarat had been raided by the Marathas on and off since 1705, and Malwa since 1699, but it wasn't u...

The Maratha-Nizam-ul-Mulk relationship went through several stages and had a significant impact on M...

The Maratha movement was a complicated one, combining an earlier movement for socio-religious reform...