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OK will try and pick up one of those books when places are open again. [Lock-down closing most things and as a matter of policy I avoid Amazon like the plague. Steve

Very true about the odd bedfellows that war or even simply politics make. ;)

If they had continued to have good political and military leaders possibly although a lot would have depended on whether they could attract converts from both Hindus and Muslims - without too strongly alienating the rest of those much larger populations. If not their going to be a small...

The problem is that is a very large area, including significant centres such as Delhi and I would have thought that even raids on them would have been mentioned but I've never heard of that before and there's no mention of them in the wiki article at all. The Nepalese role seems to have been...

I'm confused because I haven't heard of any actions by the Nepalese so far south. The wiki article on the war similarly mentions no Nepalese offensives or even raids and only defensive actions after the war started in 1815 [Actually the dow was in Nov 19814 but the 1st offensives weren't until...

Probably not. The Gurkhas were good troops and the Sikhs were powerful but even if willing I'm doubtful they could project power deep into the Ganges valley, which is what they would need to do. Raiding yes but that probably wouldn't make them popular with the locals. Also India is so...