A friend of mine who had prepared himself assiduously for a question on the First maratha War, was initially stumped when he was confronted with a lugubrious query on the second Maratha war. But quickly gathering his wits, he proceeded to give a lengthy and detailed description on the First Mratha war with the thoughtful and correct summation "the war that followed this was the second maratha war which too was equally well fought. I presume lack of space and time prevented him from going into the Third maratha war. The history master glowered as if he was confronted with the Sepoy Mutiny. Afterwards, he went after my friend so vehemently that the Mughal invaders would have in comparison seemed like lifetime paid-up members of missionaries of Charities.