The Military System of the Marathas, with a Brief Account of Their Maritime Activities c5.79
The Military System of the Marathas, with a Brief Account of Their Maritime Activities c5.79
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² Even in the closing years of the 18th century a Muhammadan writer, the author of Tarikh-i-Ibrahim Khan, remarked that most of the men in the Maratha army were husbandmen, carpenters and shopkeepers, men of mean birth. See Elliot and Dowson, History of India, Vol. VIII, p. 262.