The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India: The Struggle for Control of the South Asian Military EconomyThe Anglo Maratha Campaigns of 1803 represented the last serious indigenous obstacle to the formation of the British Raj. This study examines Maratha military culture through a battle by battle analysis of the campaigns. Randolf Cooper challenges the ethnocentric assumptions that associate Western political ascendancy with The Military Revolution and argues that the real contest for India was the struggle to control the South Asian military economy,