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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- PART I. THE EMERGENCE OF THE PRINCES -- I. INDIA AT THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- II. THE MARATHAS -- III. DECLINE OF MARATHA POWER -- IV. LORD WELLESLEY AND THE PESHWA -- V. BRITISH AND MARATHA DIPLOMACY -- VI. THE DEATH OF NANA FARNAVIS -- VII. THE BATTLE OF POONA -- VIII. THE TREATY OF BASSEIN -- IX. COLLINS AND METCALFE AT POONA -- X. OUTBREAK OF THE SECOND ANGLO-MARATHA WAR -- XI. BRITISH AND MARATHA MILITARY TACTICS -- XII. LAKE OPENS HIS CAMPAIGN -- XIII. THE BATTLE OF DELHI AND THE FALL OF AGRA -- XIV. THE BATTLE OF LASWARI -- XV. GENERAL WELLESLEY'S VICTORIES -- XVI. THE MAKING OF THE TREATIES -- XVII. DIFFICULTIES FOLLOWING THE CONCLUSION OF PEACE -- XVIII. YESWANT RAO HOLKAR -- XIX. FIRST STAGES OF THE WAR WITH HOLKAR -- XX. THE SIEGE OF BHARATPUR -- XXI. BHARATPUR AND INDIAN AND BRITISH REACTIONS -- XXII. ARRIVAL OF LORD CORNWALLIS -- XXIII. CONSIDERATIONS OF THE PEACE -- XXIV. THE WAR'S RESULTS -- XXV. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE CONQUERORS -- PART II. BRITISH PARAMOUNTCY -- XXVI. MUTINIES. THE CHAOS OF CENTRAL INDIA -- XXVII. THE COMPANY'S EMBASSIES -- XXVIII. DOMESTIC TROUBLES AND COLONIAL EXPEDITIONS -- XXIX. THE MOGUL EMPEROR AND DELHI -- XXX. METCALFE AND CENTRAL INDIA -- XXXI. THE COMPANY'S SATRAPS -- XXXII. THE GURKHA WAR -- XXXIII. THE PESHWA AND GANGADHAR SASTRI'S MURDER -- XXXIV. THE PINDARIS AND THE CHAOS OF CENTRAL INDIA -- XXXV. PRELIMINARIES OF THE PINDARI CAMPAIGN -- XXXVI. ELPHINSTONE AND THE PESHWA -- XXXVII. AMIR KHAN. THE RAJPUT STATES -- XXXVIII. THE PESHWA'S OUTBREAK -- XXXIX. THE NAGPUR OUTBREAK -- XL. THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HOLKAR -- XLI. SURRENDER OF THE PESHWA -- XLII. THE BRITISH LEADERS AND THE COMMON SOLDIER -- XLIII. REFLECTIONS: POLITICAL -- XLIV. STATUS OF THE PRINCES. THE KING OF DELHI XLV. THE DOCTRINE OF PARAMOUNTCY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX