Significant1680 – 1750 · 70 years

Mughal-Maratha Wars

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

India · Deccan · Maharashtra

Estimated casualties

500Ksingle estimate · no range published

Rising Maratha power challenged Mughal dominance in India, initiating a series of conflicts that would eventually lead to Maratha prominence in the 18th century. These wars weakened the Mughal Empire and allowed European expansion.

Belligerents2

Mughal Empire
Maratha Confederacy

ON THE MAPMughal Empire (Aurangzeb)Maratha Confederacy

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 9

Battle of Amjhera1728
Battle of Palkhed1728
Battle of Jaitpur1729
Battle of Bhopal1737
Battle of Delhi1737
Battle of Damalcherry Pass1740
Battle of Katwa1742
Battle of Trichinopoly1743
Battle of Katwa1745

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Mughal-Maratha Wars (1680 – 1750). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/mughal-maratha-wars · Sources & methodology