About the Author

Sailendra Nath Sen, formerly Professor of History, University of Calcutta, and Fellow, Asiatic Society. He has done pioneering work on the history of the Marathas and published several books on them, including Anglo-Maratha Relations during the Administration of Warren Hastings, 1772-1785 (1961, repr. 1994) and Anglo-Maratha Relations, 1785-1796 (1974, 1994). His two-volume project on the history of the Marathas entitled Fall of the Maratha Empire, 1796-1818, will be out soon. Professor Sen's other publications include Ancient Indian History and Civilization (3rd edn, 2016), History of the Freedom Movement in India (4th edn, 2009), A Textbook of Indian History and Culture (2007, repr. 2016), Chandernagore: From Bondage to Freedom, 1900-1955 (2012), and A Textbook of Medieval Indian History (2012).