The First Republic (2020)by Venkatesh Rangan

The First Republic : The Untold True Story of the Imperial Karbhari Sarkar Kindle Edition
(2020)by Venkatesh Rangan

January 30th, 1774, a forgotten yet momentous date when a revolutionary movement originating in western India declared the formation of a republican government with executive powers residing not in kings or reigning monarchs but a representative council chosen by popular will. In the next quarter of a century, this government, known as the ¡°Karbhari Sarkar¡±, expanded to cover the subcontinent from the Himalayas in the north to the river Kaveri in the south. It gave a crushing defeat to the British East India Company after an intense eight years of war and pushed back western imperialism by over three decades. It protected India¡¯s north-western borders and repulsed successive invasions of the Afghan Durranis. It officially ended the Mughal Empire and transferred all imperial executive power to itself.
Never before was a republican experiment on a pan-Indian and subcontinent wide-scale ever achieved. It was, in essence, the ¡°First Republic¡± of India. The unsung and untold story of India¡¯s First Republic, though forgotten in popular consciousness, has been kept alive in numerous primary sources of 18th-century history in Marathi, English, French, Portuguese, Persian and multiple Indian languages. Based on a study of these sources, The First Republic attempts to outline the rise and fall of the Imperial Karbhari Sarkar.

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