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Here’s a puzzle: when was the last time the Indian subcontinent saw two very large armies fight on it for more than a year, causing massive devastation? Believe it or not it was 200 years ago. More accurately, 202 years ago, in 1818.
On the one side was the Indian-manned army of the East India Company. On the other was the mighty Maratha army.
The Marathas lost and from then till 1860 a bankrupt English private company became the sovereign power. In 1860 sovereignty passed to the British crown.
In between there was the first Afghan war between 1839-42. But that was hardly
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