SATHEE: History Important Battles In Indian History

History Important Battles In Indian History

Battle	Year	Fought Between	Winner	Quick Fact
Battle of the Ten Kings	≈ 1500 BCE	King Sudas (Bharatas) vs 10 confederate tribes	Bharatas	On banks of Ravi; Ṛig-Veda mentions
Battle of Hydaspes	326 BCE	Alexander vs Porus	Alexander (but Porus reinstated)	Jhelum river; Greeks called it Hydaspes
Kalinga War	261 BCE	Ashoka vs Kalinga	Mauryan	>1 lakh died; Ashoka adopted Buddhism
1st Tarain	1191	Prithviraj Chauhan vs Mohd. Ghori	Rajputs	Ghori escaped wounded
2nd Tarain	1192	Prithviraj vs Mohd. Ghori	Ghori	Rajput defeat; Delhi Sultanate foundation

Battle	Year	Fought Between	Winner	Quick Fact
1st Panipat	1526	Babur vs Ibrahim Lodi	Mughal	Used Cannons & Tuluguma
Khanwa	1527	Babur vs Rana Sanga	Mughal	Babur took title Ghazi
Chausa	1539	Sher Shah vs Humayun	Sher Shah	Humayun jumped Ganga to escape
Kannauj	1540	Sher Shah vs Humayun	Sher Shah	Mughals lost Delhi; Sur Empire begins
2nd Panipat	1556	Akbar (Bairam Khan) vs Hemu	Mughal	Hemu shot in eye
Haldighati	1576	Akbar (Raja Man Singh) vs Rana Pratap	Mughal	Pratap’s Chetak, later Jhala Mana
Plassey	1757	Clive vs Siraj-ud-Daula	British	Mir Jafar betrayed; ₹ 2.5 cr treasury looted
Buxar	1764	Hector Munro vs Triple Alliance (Shah Alam II, Mir Qasim, Shuja-ud-Daula)	British	Diwani of Bengal secured

Battle	Year	Fought Between	Winner	Quick Fact
1st Anglo-Mysore	1767–69	Hyder Ali vs English	Hyder Ali	Madras treaty
2nd Anglo-Mysore	1780–84	Hyder + Tipu vs Warren Hastings	Stalemate (Treaty of Mangalore)
3rd Anglo-Mysore	1790–92	Tipu vs Cornwallis	British	Srirangapatnam treaty; Half territory lost
4th Anglo-Mysore	1799	Tipu vs Wellesley	British	Tipu died; Mysore placed under Wodeyars
3rd Panipat	1761	Ahmad Shah Abdali vs Marathas	Abdali	Sadashiv Rao Bhau; > 1 lakh Maratha dead
1st Anglo-Maratha	1775–82	British vs Marathas	Stalemate (Treaty of Salbai)
2nd Anglo-Maratha	1803–05	Lord Wellesley vs Maratha confederacy	British	Subsidary Alliance era
3rd Anglo-Maratha	1817–18	Lord Hastings vs Peshwa Baji Rao II	British	Peshwaship abolished

Battle	Year	Fought Between	Winner	Quick Fact
Wandiwash	1760	English (Eyre Coote) vs French (Lally)	English	Carnatic War-III; French dream ends
Biderra	1759	English vs Dutch	English	Bengal supremacy sealed
1857 Siege of Delhi	1857	British vs Rebels	British	Bahadur Shah II captured
1857 Siege of Lucknow	1857	Henry Lawrence vs Begum Hazrat Mahal	British	Residency ruins still seen

Tarain Twins: 91-92 → “First pass (1191) then fail (1192)”
Panipat Pattern: 1-2-3 → 1526, 1556, 1761 (add 30 yrs each)
Plassey-to-Buxar: 1757-1764 → “7-to-7 plus 7”
Anglo-Mysore 4-round knockout: 67-84-92-99 → “6-8-9-9” (even-odd-odd-even)

🎯 Likely RRB Questions (with Answers)

In which year did the Second Battle of Tarain take place?
1192
Who was the commander of Mughal forces in the Battle of Haldighati?
Raja Man Singh
The Battle of Plassey was fought on the banks of which river?
Hooghly (Bhagirathi)
Which treaty ended the Second Anglo-Mysore War?
Treaty of Mangalore, 1784
Who was the Nawab of Bengal defeated in the Battle of Buxar?
Mir Qasim (along with Shah Alam II & Shuja-ud-Daula)
The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in—
1761
Who was the French general defeated at Wandiwash?
Count de Lally
Which Mauryan king fought the Kalinga War?
Ashoka
The Battle of Khanwa was fought in—
1527
Who betrayed Siraj-ud-Daula in the Battle of Plassey?
Mir Jafar