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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 .
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 ...
The Sikh Empire was a regional power based in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. [4] It existed from 1799, when Maharaja Ranjit Singh captured Lahore , to 1849, when it was defeated and conquered by the British East India Company following the Second Anglo-Sikh War .
The Mughal–Sikh wars were a series of conflicts that took place between the Mughal Empire and the Sikhs states of Punjab from 1621 (Battle of Rohilla) to 1783 (Battle of Delhi). [ citation needed ] Background
The Sikh Empire (1799 – 1849 CE) was established by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Throughout its history, it fought various adversaries including the Durrani Empire of Afghanistan and the British East India Company .
The siege of Kunjpura was a 14-day siege in April to May 1772 by Sikh forces led by Sahib Singh against the Mughal coalition forces led by Mughal Ali Khan. Siege ended with a Sikh victory against an allied force of Mughals and Marathas.
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 Anglo-Indian wars were the several wars fought in the Indian Subcontinent, over a period of time, between the British East India Company and different Indian states, mainly the Mughal Empire, Rohilkhand, Kingdom of Mysore, Subah of Bengal, Maratha Confederacy, Sikh Empire of Punjab, Kingdom of Sindh and others.