Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History

William Harrison Moreland (1868-1938) spent twenty-five years as a civil servant in India, with a special interest in agricultural issues. This work, published in 1929, gives a history of land use and the lives of the peasantry from the thirteenth century onwards.

This 1783 account of the First Anglo-Maratha war of 1775-1782 is an important source of information on India before the Raj. The East India Company was expanding its influence, military and economic, over the Indian states, and became involved in a succession dispute over the Maratha Empire.

James Kerr translated this history of the rise to dominance of the Marathas over the Mughal empire in India in 1782. Written at the time of the first Anglo-Maratha war and the increasing wealth and power of the East India Company, it provided a useful history for English readers.