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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.
After occasional skirmishes between the Marathas and the Patiala forces for a month and a half the Maratha forces were defeated by Sikh troops and rest of them retired to Delhi. [45] 1793 CE Battle of Meerut: Bapu Malhar's troops Unknown Near Meerut & Doab From Khurja, Bapu Malhar sent a force of 2,000 horse to set up a Maratha post at Meerut.
He responded to the Maratha attack by attacking the Maratha camp at Katwa in the First Battle of Katwa from the rear, at nightfall leading to Bengali victory. The Marathas believing a much larger force had been mobilized, evacuated out of Bengal on 17 September 1742. Bhaskar Pant the Maratha commander, was killed in action. [11]
An authentic Bengali art was reflected in the muslin fabric of Jamdani (meaning "flower" in Persian). The making of Jamdani was pioneered by Persian weavers. The art passed to the hands of Bengali Muslim weavers known as juhulas. The artisan industry was historically based around the city of Dhaka. The city had over 80,000 weavers.
Patiala city was established in 1763 by Ala Singh, a Jat Sikh chieftain, who laid the foundation of the Patiala fort known as Qila Mubarak, around 'which the present city of Patiala is built. After the Third Battle of Panipat in 1761 in which the Marathas was defeated by the Afghans , the writ of the Afghans prevailed throughout Punjab .
First Anglo-Maratha War (1775–1782) Maratha Empire East India Company: Maratha victory. Treaty of Salbai; Battle of Delhi (1783) Sikh Confederacy: Mughal Empire: Sikh victory. Construction of Gurudwara Bangla Sahib, Gurudwara Sis Ganj Sahib [17] Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780–1784) Mysore East India Company Maratha Empire: Status quo ante bellum
Many of the Bengali Hindus in western Bengal also fled to take shelter in eastern Bengal, fearing for their lives in the wake of the Maratha attacks. [16] The further attacks took place in 1748 in Bihar, on Murshidabad in 1750, and in 1751 in Western Bengal. [17] The internal fights within the Alivardi Khan's military also contributed to their ...
The Deccan wars, also known as Maratha war of independence, [3] [4] 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. [5]