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The Maratha-Sikh clashes of 1771–1798 were a series of intermittent conflicts between the Maratha Empire and the Sikh Confederacy, primarily in Northern India. These confrontations were concentrated in the Cis-Sutlej territories and the Upper Gangetic Doab .
The Deccan wars were a series of military conflicts between the Mughal Empire and the descendants of the Maratha ruler Shivaji from the time of Shivaji's death in 1680 until the death of Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707. [3] Shivaji was a central figure in what has been called "the Maratha insurgency" against the Mughal state. [4]
In February 1758, Maratha general Raghunath Rao accepted an offer to attack Sirhind. Leading his army, he marched through Ambala, Mughal-di-Sarai, Rajpura, and Sarai Banjara, finally reaching the outskirts of Sirhind on March 9, 1758. As planned, Adina Beg Khan, along with his Sikh allies, joined the Marathas at this location.
The Marathas had initially defeated the Sikh contingent, and the latter retreated to Rajpura. Sahib Kaur, following an impassioned speech, rallied the Sikhs to return to Patiala and once again fight the Marathas. The next day, the Sikhs attacked the advance guard of the Marathas, who were later reinforced by the remaining army.
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 .
Detail of Sikh territory from a map of India, by James Rennell, 1 January 1788. The Cis-Sutlej state was ruled by many chiefs though the region was under the Mughal Empire. [7] Due to the decline of the Mughal and Afghan empires in the Punjab, the cis-Sutlej chiefs were de facto ruling independently, yet were often engaged in localized conflicts.
Name of conflict (date) Part of Belligerents Opponents Outcome Details; Katoch–Sikh War (1801) Sikh Empire: Kangra State: Sikh victory: Battle of Kasur (1807) Sikh Empire: Durrani Empire: Sikh victory: Battle of Jammu (1808) Sikh Empire: Dogra Rajput: Sikh victory: Gurkha-Sikh War (1809) Sikh Empire: Kingdom of Nepal: Sikh victory: Siege of ...
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.