Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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 ...
Further complications occurred for the Afghans, as a Maratha force led by Raghunath Rao had arrived at Agra in May 1757 by the time Ahmad Shah was crossing the Indus River back to Afghanistan. The Maratha forces completely seized the Ganges Doab, and defeated Najib ud-Daula at the battle of Delhi in September 1757.
Managed to extend the Maratha territories into most of North-West, East and Central India. Captured Attock on the banks of the Indus River and Peshawar in 1758 in the Battle of Attock, 1758. Under his leadership, the Maratha Empire reached its peak but his general and cousin lost the Third Battle of Panipat against Ahmad Shah Abdali in 1761 ...
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 Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India : The Struggle for Control of the South Asian Military Economy" by Randolf G. S. Cooper, Publisher: Cambridge University, ISBN 978-0521036467 Samant, S. D. - Vedh Mahamanavacha
The Maratha empire was further expanded into a vast empire by the Maratha Confederacy including Peshwas, stretching from central India [37] in the south to Peshawar [38] (in modern-day Pakistan) on the Afghanistan border in the north, and with expeditions in Bengal to the east.