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By. Stewart Gordon. (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp.223. $23.00.)

This book, consisting of nine articles, is a companion piece to the author's work in The New Cambridge History of India, The Marathas and presents highlights of his disparate research in one useful source. The Marathas provided a crucial link between the decline of the Mughals and the rise of British power. In fact, when the British assumed power in India in the middle of the eighteenth century, they took it from the seven or so "successor states" to the Mughals, one of which was that of the powerful ...