About the Author

Sailendra Nath Sen is a former Professor of History, University of Calcutta, an Honorary Professor of History there since 2005, and a Fellow, Asiatic Society. He has produced pioneering works on the history of the Marathas including Anglo-Maratha Relations during the Administration of Warren Hastings, 1772-1785 (1961, repr. 1994) and Chandernagore: From Bondage to Freedom(2012). His two-volume project on the history of the Marathas titled Fall of the Maratha Empire, 1796-1818, is forthcoming.