[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [A History of the Mahrattas](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826) › v2.c37.89 # A History of the Mahrattas v2.c37.89 A History of the Mahrattas v2.c37.89 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c37.89](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v2.c37.89) ² \[In a letter of March 1, 1781, Sir Eyre Coote wrote as follows to General Goddard: ‘Although I ever consider the policy of warring against the Marāthā State a most ruinous one in the interests both of the Company and the English nation; still, on the eve of your late success if we had no other power to combat against, I might have subscribed to the plan you advise me as laid down for the operations of your campaign, as the most likely to procure us honourable terms of accommodation; but, engaged as we are in a scene of contention, I may say, with every power of any consideration in India, all steps, the event of which could not be clearly ascertained as an unfailing remedy, must be exceptionable. . . . I must therefore impose it upon you as a duty you owe your King, your country, and your employers, to leave no means, which may depend upon you, untried to effect a peace with the Marāthās,’ &c. (Forrest, Selections (Marāthā Series), i. 446.)\] - [Previous: v2.c37.88](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v2.c37.88) - [Next: v2.c37.90](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v2.c37.90) - [Up: v2.c37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v2.c37) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v2.c37.89](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v2.c37.89) · Pramāṇa