Indian Battles

The following table explains the major wars fought on Indian territory − War Fought between Time

Battle of the Ten Kings King Sudas of Trustu-Bharata Trib 14 BCE defeated Ten Kings

Battle of the Hydaspes Between King Porus and Alexander 326 BCE

Conquest of the Nanda Between Chandragupta Maurya and 321-320 BCE Empire Dhana Nanda

Seleucid-Mauryan war Between Chandragupta Maurya and 303 BCE Seleucus

Kalinga War Between Ashoka and Rani Padmavati 262 BCE

Common Era(CE)

Huna Invasion Between Huna and Gupta empire 458 CE

Battle of Pullalur Between the Chalukya king Pulakesin II 618–619 CE and the Pallava king Mahendravarman I

Battle of Vatapi Between the Pallavas and Chalukyas 642 CE

Battle of A series of battles fought between the 712-740 CE Umayyad and later the Abbasid caliphates, and kings to the east of the Indus river

Battle of Peshawar Mahmud of Ghazni defeated Jayapala 1000 CE

First Battle of Tarain Prithvi Raj Chauhan defeated Muhammad 1191 CE Ghori

Second Battle of Tarain Muhammad Ghori defeated Prithvi Raj 1192 CE Chauhan Battle of Chandawar Muhammad Ghori defeated Jaichandra 1194 CE

First Battle of Panipat defeated 1526 CE

Battle of Khanwa Mughal Emperor Babur defeated 1527 CE Sanga of

Battle of Chanderi Babur defeated Medini Rai of Chanderi 1528 CE

Battle of Ghagra or Babur defeated Afghans 1529 CE Gogara

Battle of Chausa Shershah Suri defeated Mughal Emperor 1539 CE

Battle of kanauj or Shershah Suri defeated Mughal Emperor 1540 CE Billgram Humayun

Second Battle of Panipat defeated 1556 CE

Battle of Bannihatti or Deccan sultanates defeated the 1565 CE Tallikota Vijayanagara Empire

Battle of Mughal Emperor's forces led by Man 1576 CE Singh I defeated

Battle of Kartarpur Between Mughal Emperor Shaha Jahan 1635 CE and Sikh led by Guru Hargobind Singh

Battle of Samugarh Between (the eldest son of 1658 CE ) and his two younger brothers and Murad Baksh (third and fourth sons of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan)

Battle of Kolhapur defeated Adilshahi forces 1659 CE

Battle of Purandar Mughal forces defeated Shivaji 1665 CE

Battle of Between and 1670 CE Empire

Battle of Bhupalgarh Mughal forces defeated Shivaji 1679 CE Battle of Palkhed The Marathas defeated the Nizam 1728 CE

Battle of Mandsaur Malharrao (Maratha leader) 1733 CE defeated Jai Singh ( ruler)

First Battle of Maratha defeated the Mughals 1737 CE

Battle of Maratha defeated Portuguese 1939 CE

First Battle of Katwa Between Nawab of and Maratha 1742 CE

Second Battle of Katwa Between Nawab of Bengal and Maratha 1745 CE

First Carnatic War Between British and French forces 1746-1748 CE

Second Carnatic War British forces defeated French forces 1749-1754 CE

Battle of Plassey British forces defeated Nawab Siraj ud- 1757 CE Daulah of Bengal

Battle of Wandiwash Between British and French forces 1760 CE

Third Battle of Panipat The King of Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah 1761 CE Abdali defeated the

Battle of Buxar Between the British East Company 1764 CE led by Hector Munro and the combined army of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal; the ; and the Mughal King Shah Alam II

First Anglo–Mysore War Between the Sultanate of Mysore and the 1767–1769 CE

First War Between Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of 1773-1774 CE Awadh and the

First Anglo-Maratha War Between the British East India Company 1775-1782 CE and Maratha Empire

Second Anglo–Mysore Between the and the 1780–1784 CE War British East India Company Third Anglo–Mysore War Between the Kingdom of Mysore and the 1790–1792 CE East India Company

Fourth Anglo–Mysore Between the Kingdom of Mysore and the 1798–1799 CE War British East India Company

Second Anglo-Maratha Between the British East India Company 1803–1805 CE War and the Maratha Empire

Third Anglo-Maratha War Between the British East India Company 1817–1818 CE and the Maratha Empire

First Anglo-Sikh War Between the and the East 1845-1846 CE India Company

Second Anglo-Sikh War Between the Sikh Empire and the British 1848-1849 CE East India Company

Bhutan War Between Bhutan and British East India 1865 CE Company

Third Anglo-Afghan War Between British India and Afghan 1919 CE

Battle of Imphal Between British India (Allied forces) and 1944 CE Japan Emperor