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Mahidpur City is a city and a municipality, near Ujjain city in Ujjain district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Mahidpur City takes its name from Raja Maheda Bhil, who was the founder of Mahidpur. [ 1 ]
The Battle of Mahidpur was fought during the Third Anglo-Maratha War between the Indore State of the Maratha Confederacy and the British East India Company at Mahidpur, a town in the Malwa region, on 21 December 1817.
Yashwantrao Holkar.. His son Yashwantrao Holkar (r. 1797–1811) (also called as Jaswant Rao) succeeded Tukoji Rao Holkar upon his death. He tried to free the Delhi Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II from the British in the unsuccessful Second Anglo-Maratha War.
Bhima prematurely lost her husband and began living the secluded life of a widow. Soon she lost her father too. When she came to know that the British were planning to annex the state of Indore, she lamented that her motherland “which had been made prosperous by the blood and sweat of illustrious ancestors like Ahilya Bai Holkar and my father must be saved from the clutches of the foreigners.”
Henry Durand wrote, "After the battle of Mahidpur not only the Peshwa's but the real influence of the Mahratta States of Holkar and Shinde were dissolved and replaced by British supremacy." [ 72 ] The remnants of Holkar's army were pursued across the territory by the British, suffering further casualties in small-scale skirmishes. [ 34 ]
Mahidpur Assembly constituency is one of the 230 assembly constituencies of Madhya Pradesh a central Indian state. Mahidpur is also part of Ujjain Lok Sabha constituency . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
History [ edit ] After the independence of India in 1947, the then province of the Central Provinces and Berar , along with a number of princely states , merged with the Indian Union and became a new state, Madhya Pradesh . [ 6 ]
The history of this regiment can be traced to 1784 when a force of cavalry was hired from the Nawab of Arcot by the East India Company. These regiments subsequently mutinied over pay issues. The regiments involved were disbanded and from their remnants, volunteers formed the 2nd Madras Cavalry.