Determine if lack of unity was the ONLY reason for the downfall of the Marathas.
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Answer:The empire of the Marathas was not a well-knit empire under one chief. It was a confederacy of five Maratha chiefs who, quite often, were in conflict with one another. The nominal unity of the Marathas remained only up to the period of the rule of Peshwa Madhav Rao I. After him, the Peshwa could not control his subordinate chiefs. The Sindhia, the Holkar, the Bhonsle and the Gaekwad pursued self-interested policies, which many times, were pursued against the interests of one another resulting in fighting among themselves. The British took complete advantage of it. The Maratha chiefs themselves gave them the opportunity of interfering in their internal affairs and fighting against them one by one. Therefore, the absence of unity among the Marathas remained their weakness vis-a-vis the English from the beginning till the end.
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fact, the English captured the empire of India not from the Mughals but from the Marathas. After the death of Aurangzeb, the Mughal empire degenerated very quickly. It was broken into pieces and among the regional powers, the Marathas became the most powerful in India. Of course, there were independent kingdoms in several parts of India but they were all dominated by the Marathas. The Marathas made the Mughal emperor their pensioner. They ruled over the provinces of Gujarat, Malwa, Maharashtra and Bundelkhand and claimed Chauth and Sardeshmukhi from the rulers of Rajasthan, Avadh, Bengal, Hyderabad Karnataka, Mysore etc. From Punjab in the North to the Cape Comorin in the South and from Gujarat in the West to Bengal in the East, the Marathas enjoyed supremacy. Yet, the Maratha power shook to its foundations in its very first confrontation with the English. In their first war against the English, they did not fare well ; in the second war they were defeated ; and, in the third war they were destroyed.
Causes of the downfall of the Marathas
Several factors have been assigned for the defeat of the Marathas against the English. Some of them were as follows :-
Internal Weakness of the Marathas
The empire of the Marathas was not a well-knit