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| result = Maratha victory<ref>{{cite book | last=Barua | first=P. | title=The State at War in South Asia | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | series=Studies in war, society, and the military | year=2005 | isbn=978-0-8032-1344-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FIIQhuAOGaIC&pg=PA90 | quote=Marathas thoroughly defeated the British. Finally, under severe pressure from London, the British sought peace. | page=90}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C9ZP3DlSgAAC|title=Modern Hindu Trinity : Ambedkar-Hedgewar-Gandhi|quote=When they were united they inflicted a crushing defeat on the English in the 1st Anglo-Maratha war and the treaty of Salbai|page=10|publisher=Northern Book Centre|author=Y G Bhave|year=2005 |isbn=9788172111632 }}</ref><ref name="West2009"/><ref>{{cite book|quote=Thereafter the Marathas defeated British-led forces.|title=The American Revolution: A Global War|url=https://archive.org/details/americanrevoluti00dupu|url-access=registration|publisher=David McKay Company, Incorporated|year=1977|author=Richard Ernest Dupuy, Gay M. Hammerman, Grace P. Hayes|isbn=9780679506485 }}</ref> | | result = Maratha victory<ref>{{cite book | last=Barua | first=P. | title=The State at War in South Asia | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | series=Studies in war, society, and the military | year=2005 | isbn=978-0-8032-1344-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FIIQhuAOGaIC&pg=PA90 | quote=Marathas thoroughly defeated the British. Finally, under severe pressure from London, the British sought peace. | page=90}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C9ZP3DlSgAAC|title=Modern Hindu Trinity : Ambedkar-Hedgewar-Gandhi|quote=When they were united they inflicted a crushing defeat on the English in the 1st Anglo-Maratha war and the treaty of Salbai|page=10|publisher=Northern Book Centre|author=Y G Bhave|year=2005 |isbn=9788172111632 }}</ref><ref name="West2009"/><ref>{{cite book|quote=Thereafter the Marathas defeated British-led forces.|title=The American Revolution: A Global War|url=https://archive.org/details/americanrevoluti00dupu|url-access=registration|publisher=David McKay Company, Incorporated|year=1977|author=Richard Ernest Dupuy, Gay M. Hammerman, Grace P. Hayes|isbn=9780679506485 }}</ref> | ||
* [[Treaty of Salbai]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ELDlCAAAQBAJ|page=867|quote=British were compelled to restore all lands annexed from the Marathas since 1773 and renounced their connection with the would-be Peshwa, Raghunath Rao.|title=International Encyclopedia of Military History|publisher=Routledge|author=James C. Bradford|date=December 2004 |isbn=9781135950347 }}</ref><ref name="West2009">{{cite book|last=West|first=Barbara A. |title=Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania|url={{google books|plainurl=yes|id=AMYZAQAAIAAJ|keywords= First Anglo-Maratha War}}|volume=M to Z|year=2009|publisher=Facts On File|isbn=978-0-8160-7109-8|page=509|quote=This period also coincided with the First Anglo-Maratha War, which was settled only in 1782 with a Maratha victory over the British and their local allies.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|quote=Hastings promptly repudiated the Treaty of Wadgaon and sent troops from Calcutta all the way across central India to strengthen the Bombay forces. One by one they captured Maratha cities. In May 1782 a new treaty was signed with the Marathas, the Treaty of Salbai. Although it merely restored the status quo ante bellum, this treaty gave the British twenty years of peace with the Marathas and permitted them to concentrate their efforts against the French and the forces of Mysore.|title=The American Revolution: A Global War|url=https://archive.org/details/americanrevoluti00dupu|url-access=registration|publisher=David McKay Company, Incorporated|year=1977|author=Richard Ernest Dupuy, Gay M. Hammerman, Grace P. Hayes|pages=247|isbn=9780679506485 }}</ref><ref name="ThorpeThorpe2011">{{cite book|last1=Thorpe|first1=Edgar|last2=Thorpe|first2=Showick|title=Concise General Knowledge Manual|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nywer__WVHMC&pg=PT49|date=2011|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=978-81-317-5512-9|page=49}}</ref> | * [[Treaty of Salbai]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ELDlCAAAQBAJ|page=867|quote=British were compelled to restore all lands annexed from the Marathas since 1773 and renounced their connection with the would-be Peshwa, Raghunath Rao.|title=International Encyclopedia of Military History|publisher=Routledge|author=James C. Bradford|date=December 2004 |isbn=9781135950347 }}</ref><ref name="West2009">{{cite book|last=West|first=Barbara A. |title=Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania|url={{google books|plainurl=yes|id=AMYZAQAAIAAJ|keywords= First Anglo-Maratha War}}|volume=M to Z|year=2009|publisher=Facts On File|isbn=978-0-8160-7109-8|page=509|quote=This period also coincided with the First Anglo-Maratha War, which was settled only in 1782 with a Maratha victory over the British and their local allies.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|quote=Hastings promptly repudiated the Treaty of Wadgaon and sent troops from Calcutta all the way across central India to strengthen the Bombay forces. One by one they captured Maratha cities. In May 1782 a new treaty was signed with the Marathas, the Treaty of Salbai. Although it merely restored the status quo ante bellum, this treaty gave the British twenty years of peace with the Marathas and permitted them to concentrate their efforts against the French and the forces of Mysore.|title=The American Revolution: A Global War|url=https://archive.org/details/americanrevoluti00dupu|url-access=registration|publisher=David McKay Company, Incorporated|year=1977|author=Richard Ernest Dupuy, Gay M. Hammerman, Grace P. Hayes|pages=247|isbn=9780679506485 }}</ref><ref name="ThorpeThorpe2011">{{cite book|last1=Thorpe|first1=Edgar|last2=Thorpe|first2=Showick|title=Concise General Knowledge Manual|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nywer__WVHMC&pg=PT49|date=2011|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=978-81-317-5512-9|page=49}}</ref> | ||
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The '''First Anglo-Maratha War''' (1775–1782) was the first conflict fought between the [[British East India Company]] and [[Maratha Empire]] in India. The war began with the [[Treaty of Surat]] and ended with the [[Treaty of Salbai]]. As per the treaty, the British and the Marathas would not fight against each other for the next 20 years. The war, fought in between [[Surat]] and [[Poona]], saw British | The '''First Anglo-Maratha War''' (1775–1782) was the first conflict fought between the [[British East India Company]] and [[Maratha Empire]] in India. The war began with the [[Treaty of Surat]] and ended with the [[Treaty of Salbai]]. As per the treaty, the British and the Marathas would not fight against each other for the next 20 years. The war, fought in between [[Surat]] and [[Poona]], saw the British defeated and restoration of positions of both the parties before the war. [[Warren Hastings]], the first [[Governor-General of Bengal]] decided not to attack Pune directly. | ||
==Background == | ==Background == | ||
After the death of [[Madhavrao Peshwa]] in 1772, his brother [[Narayanrao Peshwa|Narayanrao]] became [[peshwa]] (prime minister) of the Maratha Empire. | After the death of [[Madhavrao Peshwa]] in 1772, his brother [[Narayanrao Peshwa|Narayanrao]] became [[peshwa]] (prime minister) of the Maratha Empire. Narayanrao's palace guards murdered him in August 1773, and his uncle [[Raghunathrao]] (Raghoba) became the Peshwa. However, Narayanrao's wife, [[Gangabai]], gave birth to a posthumous son, who was the legal heir to the throne. The newborn infant was named [['Sawai' Madhavrao]] (Sawai means "One and a Quarter"). Twelve Maratha chiefs, known as the Baarbhai <ref>Known as the Baarbhai or Barbhai Council {{Cite book|last=Kulkarni |first=Sumitra |year=1995|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SYOSHaZnBy8C&pg=PA74|title=The Satara Raj, 1818-1848: A Study in History, Administration, and Culture |location=New Delhi |publisher=Mittal Publications |page= 74 |isbn=978-81-7099-581-4 }}</ref> and led by [[Nana Phadnavis]], directed an effort to install the infant as the new Peshwa and to rule in his name as [[regent]]s. | ||
[[Raghunathrao]], unwilling to give up his position of power, sought help from the [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] at [[Bombay]] and signed the [[Treaty of Surat]] on 6 March 1775. According to the treaty, Raghunathrao ceded the territories of [[Salsette]] and [[Vasai|Bassein]] (Vasai) to the British, along with part of the revenues from [[Surat]] and [[Bharuch]] districts. In return, the British promised to provide Raghunathrao with 2,500 soldiers. | [[Raghunathrao]], unwilling to give up his position of power, sought help from the [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] at [[Bombay]] and signed the [[Treaty of Surat]] on 6 March 1775. According to the treaty, Raghunathrao ceded the territories of [[Salsette]] and [[Vasai|Bassein]] (Vasai) to the British, along with part of the revenues from [[Surat]] and [[Bharuch]] districts. In return, the British promised to provide Raghunathrao with 2,500 soldiers. | ||
At the same time, the Marathas tried to form a military alliance with the French. Two Frenchmen, Saint-Lubin and M. Montigny acted as intermediaries between | At the same time, the Marathas tried to form a military alliance with the French. Two Frenchmen, Saint-Lubin and M. Montigny acted as intermediaries between France and the Poona Regency. However, the alliance proposals reached nowhere, while the British suspicions of a global anti-British front increased, since the American War of Independence was also going up around this same period.<ref>{{Citation |last=KADAM |first=towards Cordial Relations UMESH ASHOK |title=The Maratha Court and the Embassies of Saint-Lubin and M. Montigny: A Truce towards Cordial Relations |date=2016 |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315276809-18/maratha-court-embassies-saint-lubin-montigny-truce-towards-cordial-relations-towards-cordial-relations-umesh-ashok-kadam |work=The Indian Ocean in the Making of Early Modern India |access-date=2023-08-30 |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9781315276809-18 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |isbn=978-1-315-27680-9}}</ref> | ||
The [[British Calcutta Council]] condemned the Treaty of Surat, sending Colonel Upton to [[Pune]] to annul it and make a new treaty with the regency. The [[Treaty of Purandar (1776)|Treaty of Purandhar]] (1 March 1776) annulled that of Surat, Raghunathrao was pensioned and his cause abandoned, but the revenues of Salsette and Bharuch districts were retained by the British. The Bombay government rejected this new treaty and gave refuge to Raghunathrao. In 1777, Nana Phadnavis violated his treaty with the Calcutta Council by granting the French a port on the West coast. The English retaliated by sending a force towards Pune. | The [[British Calcutta Council]] condemned the Treaty of Surat, sending Colonel Upton to [[Pune]] to annul it and make a new treaty with the regency. The [[Treaty of Purandar (1776)|Treaty of Purandhar]] (1 March 1776) annulled that of Surat, Raghunathrao was pensioned and his cause abandoned, but the revenues of Salsette and Bharuch districts were retained by the British. The Bombay government rejected this new treaty and gave refuge to Raghunathrao. In 1777, Nana Phadnavis violated his treaty with the Calcutta Council by granting the French a port on the West coast. The English retaliated by sending a force towards Pune. | ||
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* Paranjpe, Amit et al. {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20040927075428/http://www.mumbainet.com/cityinfo/histmaha.htm#Peshwa History of Maharashtra]}}. Retrieved 1 October 2004. | * Paranjpe, Amit et al. {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20040927075428/http://www.mumbainet.com/cityinfo/histmaha.htm#Peshwa History of Maharashtra]}}. Retrieved 1 October 2004. | ||
* https://sites.google.com/vvdatalink.com/vv-datalink/knowledge/history/indian-history/mordern-history/anglo-maratha-wars {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125033212/https://sites.google.com/vvdatalink.com/vv-datalink/knowledge/history/indian-history/mordern-history/anglo-maratha-wars |date=25 January 2022 }} | * [https://sites.google.com/vvdatalink.com/vv-datalink/knowledge/history/indian-history/mordern-history/anglo-maratha-wars Anglo Maratha Wars] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125033212/https://sites.google.com/vvdatalink.com/vv-datalink/knowledge/history/indian-history/mordern-history/anglo-maratha-wars |date=25 January 2022 }} | ||
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The First Anglo-Maratha War (1775–1782) was the first conflict fought between the British East India Company and Maratha Empire in India. The war began with the Treaty of Surat and ended with the Treaty of Salbai. As per the treaty, the British and the Marathas would not fight against each other for the next 20 years. The war, fought in between Surat and Poona, saw the British defeated and restoration of positions of both the parties before the war. Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of Bengal decided not to attack Pune directly.
Background
After the death of Madhavrao Peshwa in 1772, his brother Narayanrao became peshwa (prime minister) of the Maratha Empire. Narayanrao's palace guards murdered him in August 1773, and his uncle Raghunathrao (Raghoba) became the Peshwa. However, Narayanrao's wife, Gangabai, gave birth to a posthumous son, who was the legal heir to the throne. The newborn infant was named 'Sawai' Madhavrao (Sawai means "One and a Quarter"). Twelve Maratha chiefs, known as the Baarbhai [1] and led by Nana Phadnavis, directed an effort to install the infant as the new Peshwa and to rule in his name as regents.
Raghunathrao, unwilling to give up his position of power, sought help from the British at Bombay and signed the Treaty of Surat on 6 March 1775. According to the treaty, Raghunathrao ceded the territories of Salsette and Bassein (Vasai) to the British, along with part of the revenues from Surat and Bharuch districts. In return, the British promised to provide Raghunathrao with 2,500 soldiers.
At the same time, the Marathas tried to form a military alliance with the French. Two Frenchmen, Saint-Lubin and M. Montigny acted as intermediaries between France and the Poona Regency. However, the alliance proposals reached nowhere, while the British suspicions of a global anti-British front increased, since the American War of Independence was also going up around this same period.[2]
The British Calcutta Council condemned the Treaty of Surat, sending Colonel Upton to Pune to annul it and make a new treaty with the regency. The Treaty of Purandhar (1 March 1776) annulled that of Surat, Raghunathrao was pensioned and his cause abandoned, but the revenues of Salsette and Bharuch districts were retained by the British. The Bombay government rejected this new treaty and gave refuge to Raghunathrao. In 1777, Nana Phadnavis violated his treaty with the Calcutta Council by granting the French a port on the West coast. The English retaliated by sending a force towards Pune.
Initial stage and Treaty of Purandar (1774–1775)
British troops under the command of Colonel Keating, left Surat on 15 March 1775, for Pune. But they were checked by Haripant Phadke at Adas and were totally defeated on 18 May 1775.[3] Casualties for Keating's force, accompanied by Raghunathrao, included 96 killed. The Marathas casualties in the Battle of Adas (Gujarat) included 150 killed.[4]Template:Rp
Warren Hastings estimated that direct actions against Pune would be detrimental. Therefore, the Supreme Council of Bengal condemned the Treaty of Surat, sending Colonel Upton to Pune to annul it and make a new treaty with the regency. An agreement between Upton and the ministers of Pune called Treaty of Purandar was signed on 1 March 1776.
The Treaty of Purandar (or Treaty of Purandhar) was a doctrine signed on 1 March 1776 by the peshwa of the Maratha Empire and the British East India Company's Supreme Council of Bengal in Calcutta.[5] Based on the terms of the accord, the British were able to secure Salsette.[6] Treaty was signed between the then Governor General Warren Hasting who sent Colonel Upton and Nana Fadnavis of Peshwa in which British accepted Sawai Madhav Rao as a new Peshwa and Maratha accepted not to recognise existence of French in India.
The Treaty of Purandhar (1 March 1776) annulled that of Surat, Raghunath Rao was pensioned and his cause abandoned, but the revenues of Salsette and Broach districts were retained by the British.
Battle of Wadgaon
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Following a treaty between France and the Poona Government in 1776, the Bombay Government decided to invade and reinstate Raghoba. They sent a force under Col. Egerton reached Khopoli and made its way through the Western Ghats at Bhor Ghat and onwards toward Karla, which was reached on 4 January 1779 while under Maratha attacks. Finally the British were forced to retreat back to Wadgaon, but were soon surrounded. The British surrendered[7] and were forced to sign the Treaty of Wadgaon on 16 January 1779, a victory for the Marathas.[4]Template:Rp
Reinforcements from northern India, commanded by Colonel (later General) Thomas Wyndham Goddard, arrived too late to save the Bombay force. The British Governor-General in Bengal, Warren Hastings, rejected the treaty on the grounds that the Bombay officials had no legal power to sign it, and ordered Goddard to secure British interests in the area.
Goddard with 6,000 troops stormed Bhadra Fort and captured Ahmedabad on 15 February 1779. There was a garrison of 6,000 Arab and Sindhi infantry and 2,000 horses. Losses in the fight totalled 108, including two British.[8][9][10] Goddard also captured Bassein on 11 December 1780. Another Bengal detachment led by Captain Popham and assisted by the Rana of Gohad, captured Gwalior on 4 August 1780, before Mahadji Scindia could make preparations. Skirmishes took place between Mahadji Scindia and General Goddard in Gujarat, but indecisively. Hastings sent yet another force to harass Mahadji Shinde, commanded by Major Camac.Template:Efn
Central India and the Deccan
After capturing Bassein, Goddard marched towards Pune. But he was routed in the Battle of Bhor Ghat in April 1781 by Parshurambha, Haripant Phadke and Tukoji Holkar.[11][12]
In central India, Mahadji stationed himself at Malwa to challenge Camac. Initially, Mahadji had an upper hand and British forces under Camac, being harassed and reduced, had to retreat to Hadur.[3]Template:Rp
In February 1781, the British beat Shinde to the town of Sipri,[9] but every move they made after that was shadowed by his much larger army, and their supplies were cut off, until they made a desperate night raid in late March, capturing not only supplies, but even guns and elephants.[13] Thereafter, the military threat from Shinde's forces to the British was much reduced.
The contest was equally balanced now. Where Mahadji scored a significant victory over Camac at Sironj,[4]Template:Rp the British avenged the loss through the Battle of Durdah[14] on 24 March 1781.
Colonel Murre arrived with fresh forces in April 1781 to assist Popham and Camac. After his defeat at Sipri, Mahadji Shinde got alarmed. Therefore, Shinde proposed a new treaty between the Peshwas and the British which came to be known as "Treaty of Salbai".
Treaty of Salbai
This treaty, known as the Treaty of Salbai, was signed on 17 May 1782, and was ratified by Hastings in June 1782 and by Nana Phadnavis in February 1783. The treaty ended the First Anglo-Maratha War, restored the status quo, and established peace between the two parties for 20 years until the Second Anglo-Maratha War.[4]Template:Rp
In popular culture
The 2013 Hollywood film titled The Lovers is based on the backdrop of this war.[15]
See also
- Second Anglo-Maratha War
- Third Anglo-Maratha War
- List of Maratha dynasties and states
- James Hartley (Indian officer)
Notes
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- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica - Treaty of Purandhar After the death of the peshwa Narayan Rao in 1773, his uncle Raghunath Rao tried to secure the succession.Raghunath's claim in the Treaty of Surat (7 March 1775) in return for Salsette Island and Bassein (Vasai). But the supreme government disallowed this treaty and sent its own agent to renegotiate. The resulting Treaty of Purandhar annulled that of Surat. Raghunath was pensioned and his cause abandoned, but Salsette and the Broach revenues were retained by the British. The tangle was increased by the support of the London authorities for Bombay, which in 1778–79 again supported Raghunath. Peace was finally restored in 1782.
- ↑ Sugden, p. 96. It appeared that the Mahrattas had no plans to recover Bassein and Salsette by force, and that they were about to conclude an armistice with the East India Company. Indeed, the supreme council of the company had sent a plenipotentiary to the Mahratta capital, Poona, and it was expected that Salsette would be yielded without violence. This is, in fact, what happened. By playing one faction among the Mahrattas against the other, the company secured Salsette in 1776 by the treaty of Purandhar.
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Further reading
- Beck, Sanderson. India & Southeast Asia to 1800 (2006) "Marathas and the English Company 1701–1818" online. Retrieved 1 October 2004.
- Gordon, Stewart. Marathas, marauders, and state formation in eighteenth-century India (Oxford University Press, 1994).
- Gordon, Stewart. "The Marathas," in New Cambridge History of India, II.4, (Cambridge U Press, 1993).
- Seshan, Radhika. "The Maratha State: Some Preliminary Considerations." Indian Historical Review 41.1 (2014): 35–46. online
External links
- Athale, Anil. Anil Athale on Joffe's Invaders. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
- Hameed, Shahul. The First Anglo-Maratha War (1775–1782). Retrieved 1 October 2004.
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