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Battle of Mahidpur
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The Battle of Mahidpur was fought during the Third Anglo-Maratha War between the Marathas and the British led by Sir Thomas Hislop at Mahidpur, a town in the Malwa region, on December 20, 1817.
One of the sardars of Holkar army, Gaffur Khan Pindari, secretly signed a treaty with the British on 9th November 1817 and accordingly killed Tulsibai on 19th December 1817. The British lead by Sir Thomas Hislop attacked on 20th December 1817 and defeated the army lead by 11 Years old Maharaja Malharrao Holkar (III), 20 Yrs old Harirao Holkar and 20 Years old Bhimabai Holkar in the Battle of Mahidpur. Holkars had nearly won the war but at the deciding moment Nawab Abdul Gaffur Khan betrayed and left the battlefeild along with his army. The British gave the Jahagir of Jawara to Gaffur Khan for this betrayal. The treaty was signed on 6th January 1818 at Mandsaur (Treaty of Mandsaur). Bhimabai Holkar didnt accepted the treaty and kept attacking the British by guriella method. Maharani Laxmibai of Jhanshi took inspiration from Bhimabai Holkar and fought against the British. At the conclusion of this Third Anglo-Maratha War, the Holkars lost much of their territory to the British and were incorporated into the British Raj as a princely state of the Central India Agency.
This battle led to the final destruction of Maratha power. Baji Rao II, who was trying to consolidate Marathas, finally surrendered in June 1818. British abolished the position of Peshwa and Marathas were limited to the small kingdom of Satara until its annexation to Bombay state in 1848.
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| History | Shivaji - Shambhaji - Raja Ram - Balaji Vishwanath - Peshwas - Third Battle of Panipat - Anglo-Maratha Wars - Nana Sahib |  |
| Battles | Battle of Pratapgarh - Battle of Kolhapur - Battle of Pavan Khind - Battle of Surat - Battle of Sinhagad - Battle of Palkhed - Battle of Vasai - Third Battle of Panipat - Battle of Patan - Battle of Poona - Battle of Delhi - Battle of Assaye - Battle of Laswari - Battle of Farrukhabad - Battle of Bharatpur - Battle of Khadki - Battle of Mahidpur | |
| Maratha Confederacy | Peshwa of Poona - Bhonsle of Nagpur - Gaekwad of Baroda - Sindhia of Gwalior - Holkar of Indore | |
| Adversaries | Aurangazeb - Ahmad Shah Abdali - British Empire | |
| Forts | Lohagad - Pratapgad - Raigad - Ratangad - Sindhudurg - Sinhagad | |
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