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Afghan–Maratha War, the Glossary

Index Afghan–Maratha War

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]

Table of Contents

  1. 92 relations: Adina Beg, Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Durrani, Ala Singh, Attock, Aurangzeb, Bajirao I, Bala Hissar, Peshawar, Balaji Baji Rao, Battle of Delhi (1757), Bengal, Capture of Delhi (1771), Central India, Charat Singh, Chauth, Chimaji Appa, Dattaji Rao Scindia, Deccan Plateau, Deccan wars, Delhi, Dera Ghazi Khan, Durrani Empire, East India Company, Emirate of Afghanistan, First Anglo-Maratha War, French India, Gujarat, Haryana, House of Scindia, Hyder Ali, Hyderabad State, Ibrahim Khan Gardi, India, Indian campaign of Ahmad Shah Durrani, Indian subcontinent, Indo-Gangetic Plain, Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, Jats, Jihad, Kabul, Kandahar, Karnal, Kashmir, Khorasani Turkic, Khyber Pass, Kingdom of Rohilkhand, Lahore, List of emperors of the Mughal Empire, Machhiwara, Mahadaji Shinde, ... Expand index (42 more) »

  2. Conflicts in 1758
  3. Invasions by India
  4. Wars involving the Maratha Confederacy

Adina Beg

Adina Beg Khan (– 15 September 1758) was a Punjabi general and administrator who served as the last governor of the Punjab region of the Mughal Empire, including the provinces of Lahore and of Multan.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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Ahmad Shah Durrani

Ahmad Shāh Durrānī (احمد شاه دراني), also known as Ahmad Shāh Abdālī, was the founder of the Durrani Empire and is often regarded as the founder of modern Afghanistan.

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Ala Singh

Ala Singh (1691–1765) was the founder and first ruler of the princely state of Patiala.

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Attock

Attock (Punjabi, اٹک), formerly known as Campbellpur (Punjabi, کیمبل پور|), is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, not far from the country's capital Islamabad.

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Aurangzeb

Muhi al-Din Muhammad (3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known as italics, was the sixth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707.

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Bajirao I

Bajirao I (Visaji Bajirao Ballal;; 18 August 1700 – 28 April 1740) was the 7th and most powerful Peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy.

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Bala Hissar, Peshawar

Bala Hissar (Pashto/Urdu/Hindko: قلعه بالاحصار), also spelt Bala Hisar, is an historic fortress located in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

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Balaji Baji Rao

Balaji Baji Rao (8 December 1720 – 23 June 1761), often referred to as Nana Saheb I, was the 8th Peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy.

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Battle of Delhi (1757)

The Battle of Delhi in 1757 also referred to as the Second Battle of Delhi, was fought on 11 August 1757 between the Maratha Confederacy under the command of Raghunath Rao and the Rohillas under the command of Najib-ud-Daula, who was under the Afghan suzerainty and simultaneously the "Pay Master" of what remained of the Mughal Army.

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Bengal

Geographical distribution of the Bengali language Bengal (Bôṅgo) or endonym Bangla (Bāṅlā) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.

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Capture of Delhi (1771)

In 1771, the forces of the Maratha Confederacy led by Mahadaji Shinde captured Delhi from the Rohillas and brought back the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II to Delhi from exile in Oudh.

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Central India

Central India is a loosely defined geographical region of India.

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Charat Singh

Sardar Charat Singh (1721–1770 or 1733–1774), also romanised as Charhat Singh, was the founder of Sukerchakia Misl, father of Mahan Singh, and the grandfather of Ranjit Singh, the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire.

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Chauth

Chauth (from) was a regular tax or tribute imposed from the early 18th century by the Maratha Empire in the Indian subcontinent.

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Chimaji Appa

Chimaji Balaji Bhat (1707–17 December 1740), commonly referred to as Appa or Bhau, was the son of Balaji Vishwanath Bhat and the younger brother of Bajirao Peshwa of Maratha Empire.

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Dattaji Rao Scindia

Dattaji Rao Shinde, also known as Dattaji Rao Scindia, (c. 1723 – 10 January 1760) was the second son of Ranoji Rao Shinde and Maina Bai, alias Nimba Bai.

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Deccan Plateau

The Deccan is a large plateau and region of the Indian subcontinent located between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, and is loosely defined as the peninsular region between these ranges that is south of the Narmada River.

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Deccan wars

The Deccan wars, also known as Mughal–Maratha wars, were a series of military conflicts between the Mughals and the Marathas after the death of Shivaji in 1680 until the death of Aurangzeb in 1707. Afghan–Maratha War and Deccan wars are wars involving the Maratha Confederacy.

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Delhi

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.

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Dera Ghazi Khan

Dera Ghazi Khan (Urdu), abbreviated as D.G. Khan, is a city in the southwestern part of Punjab, Pakistan.

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Durrani Empire

The Durrani Empire, or the Afghan Empire, also known as the Sadozai Kingdom, was an Afghan empire founded by the Durrani tribe of Pashtuns under Ahmad Shah Durrani in 1747, which spanned parts of Central Asia, the Iranian plateau, and the Indian subcontinent.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.

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Emirate of Afghanistan

The Emirate of Afghanistan, known as the Emirate of Kabul until 1855, was an emirate in Central Asia and South Asia that encompassed present-day Afghanistan and parts of present-day Pakistan (before 1893).

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First Anglo-Maratha War

The First Anglo-Maratha War (1775–1782) was the first of three Anglo-Maratha Wars fought between the British East India Company and Maratha Confederacy in India. Afghan–Maratha War and first Anglo-Maratha War are wars involving the Maratha Confederacy.

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French India

French India, formally the Établissements français dans l'Inde (French Settlements in India), was a French colony comprising five geographically separated enclaves on the Indian subcontinent that had initially been factories of the French East India Company.

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Gujarat

Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.

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Haryana

Haryana (ISO: Hariyāṇā) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country.

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House of Scindia

House of Scindia (anglicized from Shinde) is a Hindu Maratha Royal House that ruled the erstwhile Gwalior State in central India.

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Hyder Ali

Hyder Ali (Haidarālī; 1720 – 7 December 1782) was the Sultan and de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India.

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Hyderabad State

Hyderabad State or Hyderabad Deccan was a kingdom, country, and princely state in the Deccan with its capital at the city of Hyderabad.

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Ibrahim Khan Gardi

Ibrahim Khan Gardi (died 14 January 1761) was a South Indian Muslim general of Maratha Empire.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian campaign of Ahmad Shah Durrani

Ahmad Shah Durrani, the founder of the Durrani Empire, invaded Indian subcontinent for eight times between 1748 and 1767, following the collapse of Mughal Empire in the mid-18th century. Afghan–Maratha War and Indian campaign of Ahmad Shah Durrani are military history of India.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Indo-Gangetic Plain

The Indo-Gangetic Plain, also known as the North Indian River Plain, is a fertile plain encompassing northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, including most of modern-day northern and eastern India, most of eastern-Pakistan, virtually all of Bangladesh and southern plains of Nepal.

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Jassa Singh Ahluwalia

Jassa Singh Ahluwalia (3 May 1718 – 23 October 1783) was a Sikh leader during the period of the Sikh Confederacy, being the supreme leader of the Dal Khalsa.

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Jats

The Jat people are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan.

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Jihad

Jihad (jihād) is an Arabic word which literally means "exerting", "striving", or "struggling", especially with a praiseworthy aim.

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Kabul

Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan.

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Kandahar

Kandahar is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of.

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Karnal

Karnal is a city located in the state of Haryana, India and is the administrative headquarters of Karnal District.

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Kashmir

Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.

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Khorasani Turkic

Khorasani Turkic or Khorasani Turkish is an Oghuz Turkic language spoken in the North Khorasan Province and the Razavi Khorasan Province in Iran.

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Khyber Pass

The Khyber Pass (Urdu: درۂ خیبر; translit) is a mountain pass in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, on the border with the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan.

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Kingdom of Rohilkhand

The Kingdom of Rohilkhand was a late modern Indian kingdom under nominal Mughal suzerainty, that rose under the declining Mughal Empire in 1721 and continued to exist until 1774 when it was defeated by Oudh the British transformed its significantly reduced borders into the princely state of Rampur.

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Lahore

Lahore (لہور; لاہور) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Punjab.

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List of emperors of the Mughal Empire

The emperors of the Mughal Empire, styled the Emperors of Hindustan, who were all members of the Timurid dynasty (House of Babur), ruled over the empire from its inception in 1526 to its dissolution in 1857.

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Machhiwara

Machhiwara is one of the developing cities in the Ludhiana district of the Indian state of Punjab.

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Mahadaji Shinde

Mahadaji Shinde (23 December 1730 – 12 February 1794), later known as Mahadji Scindia or Madhava Rao Scindia, was a Maratha statesman and general who served as the Raja of Gwalior from 1768 to 1794.

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Malhar Rao Holkar

Malhar Rao Holkar (16 March 1693 – 20 May 1766) was a noble subedar of the Maratha Empire, in present-day India.

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Malwa

Malwa is a historical region of west-central India occupying a plateau of volcanic origin.

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Maratha Confederacy

The Maratha Confederacy, also referred to as the Maratha Empire, was an early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent.

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Multan

Multan is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, located on the bank of river Chenab.

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Najib ad-Dawlah

Najib ad-Dawlah (نجيب الدوله), also known as Najib Khan Yousafzai (نجيب خان), was a Rohilla Yousafzai Afghan who earlier served as a Mughal serviceman but later deserted the cause of the Mughals and joined Ahmad Shah Abdali in 1757 in his attack on Delhi.

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Nizam of Hyderabad

Nizam of Hyderabad was the title of the ruler of Hyderabad State (part of the Indian state of Telangana, the Marathwada region of Maharashtra and the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka).

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North India

North India, also called Northern India, is a geographical and broad cultural region comprising the northern part of India (or historically, the Indian subcontinent) wherein Indo-Aryans form the prominent majority population.

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Northwest India

Northwest India is a loosely defined region of India consisting of north-western states of the Republic of India.

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Northwest India (pre-1947)

Northwest India was a historical region, geographically located on the north-western Indian subcontinent.

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Odisha

Odisha (English), formerly Orissa (the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Pashtuns

Pashtuns (translit), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are a nomadic, pastoral, Eastern Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. They historically were also referred to as Afghans until the 1970s after the term's meaning had become a demonym for members of all ethnic groups in Afghanistan.

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Patiala

Patiala is a city in southeastern Punjab, northwestern India.

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Peshawar

Peshawar (پېښور; پشور;; پشاور) is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district population of over 4.7 million in the 2023 census.

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Peshwa

Peshwa was second highest office in the Maratha Confederacy, next in rank and prestige only to that of the Chhatrapati.

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Pune

Pune, previously spelled in English as Poona (the official name until 1978), is a city in Maharashtra state in the Deccan plateau in Western India.

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Punjab

Punjab (also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb), also known as the Land of the Five Rivers, is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is specifically located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern-Pakistan and northwestern-India.

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Raghunath Rao

Raghunathrao Bhat, also known as Ragho Ballad or Raghoba Dada (18 August 1734 – 11 December 1783), was the younger son of Peshwa Bajirao I who served as the 11th Peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy for a brief period from 1773 to 1774.

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Rajpura

Rajpura is a city in Patiala district in the Indian state of Punjab, India, situated along the border of the Indian state of Haryana.

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Rajputana

Rājputana, meaning Land of the Rajputs, was a region in the Indian subcontinent that included mainly the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan, as well as parts of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, and some adjoining areas of Sindh in modern-day southern Pakistan.

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Rohilla

Rohillas are a mixed Indian community of Pashtun heritage, historically found in Rohilkhand, a region in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Rohtas Fort

Rohtas Fort (Punjabi, قلعہ روہتاس, romanized: Qilā Rohtās) is a 16th-century fortress located near the city of Dina in Jhelum district of the Punjab province of Pakistan.

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Sadashivrao Bhau

Sadashivrao Bhau Bhatt (4 August 1730 – 14 January 1761) was son of Chimaji Appa (younger brother of Bajirao I) and Rakhmabai (Pethe family) and the nephew of Baji Rao I. He was a finance minister during the reign of Maratha emperor Rajaram II.

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Sakharam Bapu Bokil

Sakharam Bapu Bokil (also known as Sakharam Bapu, Sakharam Hari Bokil or Sakharam Bhau), born Sakharam Bhagwant Bokil, was an influential minister, diplomat and statesman of the Maratha Empire during the Peshwa administration in Pune, India.

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Shah Alam II

Shah Alam II (25 June 1728 – 19 November 1806), also known by his birth name Ali Gohar, or Ali Gauhar, was the seventeenth Mughal emperor and the son of Alamgir II.

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Shamsher Bahadur I

Shamsher Bahadur I (1734 – 18 January 1761) (Krishna Rao), was a ruler of the Maratha dominion of Banda in northern India.

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Sikh Confederacy

The Sikh Confederacy was a confederation of twelve sovereign states (each known as a Misl, derived from the Arabic word مِثْل meaning 'equal'; sometimes spelt as Misal) which rose during the 18th century in the Punjab region in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent and is cited as one of the causes of the weakening of the Mughal Empire prior to Nader Shah's invasion of India (1738–1740).

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Sikhs

Sikhs (singular Sikh: or; sikkh) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhism, a religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak.

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Sirhind-Fategarh

Sirhind-Fategarh is a town and a municipal council in the Fatehgarh Sahib district in the Indian state of Punjab.

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Surat

Surat (Gujarati) is a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

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Sutlej

The Sutlej River is the longest of the five rivers that flow through the historic crossroads region of Punjab in northern India and Pakistan.

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (TN) is the southernmost state of India.

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Thane

Thane (previously known as Thana, the official name until 1996) is a metropolitan city located on the northwestern side of the state of Maharashtra in India and on the northeastern side of Mumbai.

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Third Battle of Panipat

The Third Battle of Panipat took place on 14 January 1761 between the Maratha Confederacy and the invading army of the Durrani Empire.

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Timur Shah Durrani

Timur Shah Durrani, also known as Timur Shah Abdali or Taimur Shah Abdali (December 1746 – 20 May 1793) was the second ruler of the Afghan Durrani Empire, from November 1772 until his death in 1793.

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Tipu Sultan

Tipu Sultan (Sultan Fateh Ali Sahab Tipu; 1 December 1751 – 4 May 1799), commonly referred to as Sher-e-Mysore or "Tiger of Mysore", was an Indian ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore based in South India.

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Tiruchirappalli

Tiruchirappalli (formerly Trichinopoly in English), also called Tiruchi or Trichy, is a major tier II city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of Tiruchirappalli district.

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Tukoji Rao Holkar

Tukoji Rao Holkar (26 June 1723 – 15 August 1797), belonging to the Holkar clan of the Marathas was the feudatory of Indore (r. 1795–1797).

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Tukoji Rao Scindia

Tukoji Rao Scindia (after 1727 - 14 January 1761) aka Baba Sahib was the fourth son of Ranoji Rao Scindia and elder brother of Mahadaji Scindia.

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Uzbeks

The Uzbeks (Oʻzbek, Ўзбек,, Oʻzbeklar, Ўзбеклар) are a Turkic ethnic group native to the wider Central Asian region, being among the largest Turkic ethnic group in the area.

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Vishwasrao

Vishwasrao Bhat (22 July 1742 – 14 January 1761) was the eldest son and heir of Peshwa Balaji Baji Rao of the Maratha Empire.

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Zamburak

Zamburak (زنبورک), literally meaning wasp, was a specialized form of self-propelled artillery from the early modern period, featuring small swivel guns mounted on and fired from camels.

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See also

Conflicts in 1758

Invasions by India

Wars involving the Maratha Confederacy

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan–Maratha_War

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