List of battles of Rajasthan

Several significant battles are recorded to have taken place in what is now known as Rajasthan.

• Battle of Rajasthan (738) - Bappa Rawal defeated the armies of the Umayyad Caliphate
• The First Battle of Tarain (1191) – Prithviraj Chauhan of Ajmer defeated Mohammad Gori.
• Second Battle of Tarain (1192) – Muhammad Gori defeated Prithvi Raj Chauhan.
• Battle of Ranthambore (1299) - Hammir deo defeated a Khilji army under Nusrat Khan.^[1]
• Siege of Ranthombore (1301) – Alauddin Khilji defeated Hammir deo.
• Siege of Chittor (1303) – Alauddin Khilji defeated Rawal Ratan Singh (Rani Padmini and other ladies committed Jauhar)
• Battle of Jalore (1310–14) – Alauddin Khilji defeated Kanhad deo after a long and bloody war.^[2]
• Battle of Siwana (1308) – Malik Kamaluddin a general of Alauddin Khilji defeated Sheetal deo.
• Battle of Mandalgarh and Banas (1442-1446) - A series of battles that took place between Mahmud Khilji of Malwa and Rana Kumbha of Mewar. bloodied by these engagements the Sultan did not attack Mewar for another ten years.^[3][4]
• Battle of Nagaur (1456) - Rana Kumbha defeated the combined armies of Shams Khan (sultan of Nagaur) and Qutbuddin (Sultan of Gujarat) and captured Nagaur, Kasili, Khandela and shakambhari.^[5]
• Battle of Khatoli (1517) – Rana Sanga defeated Ibrahim Lodhi.^[6]
• Battle of Dholpur (1519) - Rana Sanga defeated Ibrahim Lodhi.^[7]
• Battle of Gagron (1519) – Rana Sanga defeated Mahmud Khilji of Malwa.^[8]
• Invasion of Mewar (1520) - Sultan Muzaffar Shah II sent an army under Malik Ayaz but failed and retreated to Gujarat.^[9]
• Battle of Khanwa (1527) – Babur defeated Rana Sanga.^[10]
• Battle of Sammel (1544) – Sher Shah Suri's Pyrrhic victory against the army of Jaita and Kumpa.^[11]
• Siege of Ranthambore (1558) - Mughal Emperor Akbar besieged Ranthambore Fort but failed due to Rajput rebellions in Gwalior.
• Battle of Merta (1562) - Akbar with the help of princes from Bikaner and Amer defeated Rao Chandra Sen and advanced towards Jodhpur.
• First Mughal Invasion of Marwar (1562-1583) - Akbar invaded Marwar and occupied Jodhpur. The ruler Rao Chandra Sen continued his struggle until his death in 1581 after which Marwar submitted to Mughal rule in 1583.^[12]
• Siege of Chittorgarh (1567) – Emperor Akbar defeated Rao Jaimal and Patta (Udai Singh II escaped with his family to Udaipur)
• Siege of Ranthambore (1568) - A successful siege by Mughal Emperor Akbar causes the Rajput leader Rao Surjan Hada to surrender Ranthambore Fort.
• Battle of Haldighati (1576) – Man Singh (the commander of Akbar) defeated Maharana Pratap.
• Battle of Dewair (1582) - Maharana Pratap attacked a Mughal stronghold this resulted in the flight of the Mughal soldiers and the closing of all the 36 Mughal posts in Mewar.
• Second Mughal Invasion of Marwar (1679-1707) - Auranzeb took Marwar under his direct control after the death of Maharaja Jaswant Singh. The Rathore army under Durgadas Rathore carried out a relentless struggle against the occupying forces. In 1707 after the death of Aurangzeb Durgadas defeated the local Mughal force and reoccupied Jodhpur and their lost territories.^[13]
• battle of Aravalli hills (1680) - Three separate armies, under Aurangzeb's sons Akbar, Azam and Muazzam, penetrated the Aravalli hills from different directions but Akbar defected to the Rajputs resulting in the defeat of the Mughals by the armies of Rana Raj Singh I and Durgadas Rathore.^[14]
• Battle of Maonda and Mandholi (1767) - Jaipur forces defeat the forces of Bharatpur.^[15]
• Battle of Tunga or Battle of Lalsot (1787) - Combined forces of Jaipur and Jodhpur defeated the Maratha forces of Mahadaji Shinde.^[16]
• Battle of Malpura (1800) - Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh defeated Daulat Rao Sindhia^[17]

References

1. Gods, Kings & Slaves: The Siege of Madurai chapter 16 by Venkatesh R.
2. Maheshwari, Hiralal (1980). History of Rajasthani Literature. Sahitya Akademi. p. 17.
3. A Textbook of Medieval Indian History. Primus Books.
4. Har Bilas Sarda "Maharana Kumbha: sovereign, soldier, scholar" pg 47
5. A Textbook of Medieval Indian History. Primus Books. pp. 116–117
6. Decisive Battles India Lost pg 56 by Jaywant Joglekar
7. Decisive Battles India Lost pg 56 by Jaywant Joglekar
8. Decisive Battles India Lost pg 57 by Jaywant Joglekar
9. The Hindupat, the Last Great Leader of the Rajput Race. 1918. Reprint. London pg 84-86
10. Decisive Battles India Lost pg 60 by Jaywant Joglekar
11. Tarikh -i Daudi Farid bin Hasan Sur entitled Shir Shah fol 114
12. Studies in Mughal History pg 91 by Ashwini Agrawal
13. The Cambridge History of India pg 248-304
14. Storia do Mogor by Niccolao Manucci
15. History of Jaipur by Jadunath Sarkar pg. 256
16. Jacques, Tony. Dictionary of Battles and Sieges pg 565
17. A history of Jaipur pg 310 by Jadunath Sarkar