Modern European history . lves with the English and were left on their thrones. This commercialcompany became invested with the government of these acquisitions,under the provisions of laws passed by the English Parliament at vari-ous times. In the nineteenth century the area of British control stead-ily widened, until it became complete. Its progress wasOverthrow . , r , 1 , , , - 1 of the immensely furthered by the overthrow, alter a long and Mahratta intermittent war, of the Mahratta confederacy, a loose confederacy . ^ ,. . union of Indian princes dominating central and western India. This


Modern European history . lves with the English and were left on their thrones. This commercialcompany became invested with the government of these acquisitions,under the provisions of laws passed by the English Parliament at vari-ous times. In the nineteenth century the area of British control stead-ily widened, until it became complete. Its progress wasOverthrow . , r , 1 , , , - 1 of the immensely furthered by the overthrow, alter a long and Mahratta intermittent war, of the Mahratta confederacy, a loose confederacy . ^ ,. . union of Indian princes dominating central and western India. This confederacy was finally conquered in a war which lasted from 1816 to 1818, when a large part of its territories were added directly to the English possessions, and other parts were left under their native rulers who, however, were brought effectively under English control by being obliged to conform to English policy, to accept English Residents at their courts, whose advice they were practically compelled to follow,.


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