WHAT WAS THE MAIN CAUSE OF INDIAN DEFEAT AT THE ANGLO – MARATHA WARS? HOW DO YOU THINK INDIAN RULERS COULD HAVE PREVENTED THE COLONIZATION OF INDIA BY THE BRITISH?
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The Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–1818) was the final and decisive conflict between the British East India Company (EIC) and the Maratha Empire in India. The war left the Company in control of most of India. It began with an invasion of the Maratha territory by British East India Company troops,[2] and although the British were outnumbered, the Maratha army was decimated. The troops were led by the Governor General Hastings (no relation to Warren Hastings, the first governor-general of Bengal) supported by a force under General Thomas Hislop. Operations began against the Pindaris, a band of Muslim mercenaries and Marathas from central India.
The main cause of the second Maratha war due to the defeat of the peshwa Baji Rao II by the Holkars, one of the prominent Maratha clans, as a result of which he accepted British protection by signing the Treaty of Bassein in December 1802. ... As a result, the second Anglo-Maratha war broke out in Central India in 1803.