First Anglo-Maratha War

First Anglo-Maratha War
	Part of the Anglo-Maratha Wars
	; A mural depicting a British officer surrendering to Mahadaji Scindia following the Maratha victory at the Battle of Wadagaon
Date	15 March 1775 – 17 May 1782 (7 years, 2 months and 2 days)
Location	Central India; Western India;
Result	Inconclusive Status quo ante bellum; Treaty of Salbai;
Belligerents
Great Britain; East India Company ; ;	Maratha Empire Indore State; Gwalior State ; ;
Commanders and leaders
Warren Hastings; Colonel Keating; Thomas Wyndham Goddard; Raghunathrao;	Madhavrao II; Nana Fadnavis; Hari Pant; Mahadji Shinde; Tukoji Holkar;
Strength
93,000 troops total; 23 ships	Around 146,000 troops total; 14 ships

The First Anglo-Maratha War (1775–1782) was the first conflict fought between the British East India Company and Maratha Empire in India. The war, fought in between Surat and Poona, began with the 1775 Treaty of Surat after the East India Company agreed to support the recently-deposed Raghunathrao's claim as peshwa of the Maratha Empire. Several years of intermittent and largely inconclusive campaigning followed, in which the East India Company failed to decisively defeat the highly mobile Marathas. The war ended in 1782 following the Treaty of Salbai. As per the treaty, both sides returned each other's captured territory, and the British withdrew their support for Raghunathrao. The British and Marathas would not fight against each other again until the Second Anglo-Maratha War 20 years later.