Pakistan is a paradigm example of a failed state that has undergone an extremely dangerous form of radical Islamisation.
The First Anglo-Maratha War
First Anglo-Maratha War, the result of the Bombay government's alliance with
the would-be Maratha peshwa, Raghoba. Hastings sent an expedition across the
peninsula from Calcutta to Surat (1778, arrived 1779) and broke the coalition
between the Marathas, Haidar Ali, and the nizam. The company had already showed
its might by defeating the combined forces of Mughal Shah Alam and Bengal's
Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah at the Battle of Plassey. Soon hostilities broke out
between the Company and the Marathas. The first Anglo-Maratha war took place
between 1775-82 and resulted in a humiliating defeat of the Company's forces,
which in turn resulted in the treaty of Salbai. Soon the Maratha Empire was in a
position to regain its lost glory and it had found a genius in Madhaji Schindia.
But his death in 1794 dashed all hopes of Maratha revivalism. Soon they followed
the Mughals into dissolution. The Treaty of Salbai (1782) obtained for Bombay 20
years' peace with the Marathas and the cession of Salsette and Elephanta.
