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The Afghan–Maratha War was fought between the Afghan Empire under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Maratha Confederacy and the Sikh Confederacy between 1758 and 1761. [1] It took place in north-west India , primarily the region around Delhi and Punjab .
The Maratha Confederacy, [a] also referred to as the Maratha Empire, [12] [13] [14] was an early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent. It comprised the realms of the Peshwa and four major independent Maratha states [ 15 ] [ 16 ] often subordinate to the former.
By 1760, the Maratha groups had coalesced into a big enough army under the command of Sadashivrao Bhau. Once again, Panipat was the scene of a battle for control of northern India. The Third battle of Panipat was fought between Durrani's Afghan forces and the Maratha forces in January 1761, and resulted in a decisive Durrani victory. [162]
Alarmed by the growing Maratha presence, Abdus Samad Khan, the Afghan governor of Sirhind, began preparing for conflict. Before January 6, 1758, Adina Beg’s envoys, Har Lai and Sidiq Beg, successfully negotiated an agreement with Raghunath Rao, offering the Marathas a daily payment of one lakh rupees while marching and fifty thousand rupees ...
Third Battle of Panipat; Part of Indian Campaign of Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Afghan–Maratha War: c. 1770 Faizabad-style painting of the Third Battle of Panipat; the centre of the image is dominated by the twin arcs of the lines of guns firing at each other with smoke and destruction in between.
The Durrani Empire, [b] colloquially known as the Afghan Empire, [c] [9] or the Sadozai Kingdom, [d] [10] was an Afghan empire founded by the Durrani tribe of Pashtuns under Ahmad Shah Durrani in 1747, which spanned parts of Central Asia, the Iranian plateau, and the Indian subcontinent.
Mughal Empire–Afghanistan War; Battle of Delhi: 1757 Mughal Empire • Maratha Confederacy: Afghanistan • Rohilkhand: Delhi, Mughal Empire: Victory Battle of Panipat: 1761 Mughal Empire • Maratha Confederacy: Afghan Empire • Rohilkhand • Amb State • Khanate of Kalat • Kingdom of Awadh: Panipat, Mughal Empire: Defeat Maratha-Nizam War
Ahmed Shah returned to Kabul, and after ten years the Maratha army recaptured Delhi in 1771, and in 1772 they invaded the Rohilkhand Doab area. [citation needed] The Marathas looted and devastated the lands of the Rohilas and Pathans in Rohilkhand. [citation needed] As early as by the end of 1761, the Sikhs had begun to occupy much of Punjab.