Tag: Malhar Rao

  • The Last Raid : Dying Embers of the Mughal Empire

    The Last Raid : Dying Embers of the Mughal Empire

    In 1754 the Marathas arrived as the kingmakers in Delhi . The defeat and decline of the Imperial Mughal armies had led to the ethnic tensions between the ruling classes of the Mughals being the Iranis, the Turanis and the much despised Hindustanis. Their erstwhile allies composing of part of the Hindu ruling classes of…