What were the main reasons for the victory
of the EEIC in the and
Anglo-Maratha Wars?
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Answer:
The key to the issue however was the fact that using the revenue of Bengal the East India Company could economically sustain as well as rapidly expand its army much more rapidly than any native power in India including Mysore.
Diplomatically the East India Company succeeded in isolating Mysore by 1785 and from 1790 onwards the balance of power was no longer in Mysore's favour.
There is an interesting parallel here. A recent book by an American also cites poor diplomacy or , "New European Diplomatic abilities to gang up" in words of a reviewer,who I heard at one forum, recently as one of the principal reasons of failure of the Ottoman Turks in defeating European powers in the period 1500-1700. (22)
France shaken by the French Revolution of 1789 was in no position to any longer effectively aid Mysore by its naval power.
Thus by I792 the East India Company was able to successfully contain the Muslim state of Mysore,which was their principal opponent in India from 1767 to 1792.
The part which native troops played in the Siege of Seringapatam of 1792 as a result of which Mysore was reduced to a secondary power may be gauged from the fact that out of the total East India Company force of 30,991 men 21,899 were natives. (23)
How the English East India Company Conquered India Paperback – November 2, 2012