Part of Decline of the Mughal Empire and Battles involving the Maratha Empire
A Maratha Ditch, constricted around forts and factories as protection against Maratha raids
Date
April 1742 – March 1751
Location
Bengal Subah (Bengal, Bihar, parts of modern Orissa)
Result
Signing of a peace treaty (1751)[1]
Territorial changes
Incorporation of Orissa into the Nagpur State[2]
Belligerents
Maratha Confederacy
Nagpur
Nawab of Bengal
Commanders and leaders
Raghoji I Bhaskar Pandit † Janoji Bhonsle Sabaji Bhonsle
Alivardi Khan Gopal Singha Dev Mir Jafar Chitrasen Rai [3] Rai Durlabh Ghulam Mustafa Khan Ataullah Khan Zainuddin Ahmed Abdus Salam Sheikh Masum † Syed Ahmed Khan
Strength
40,000 (in 1742) 12,000 (in 1748)
15,000 Cavalry and 8,000 Musketeers (in 1748)
Casualties and losses
Unknown
Unknown
The Maratha invasions of Bengal (1742–1751), also known as the Maratha expeditions in Bengal, were the frequent invasions by the Maratha forces in the Bengal Subah (Bengal, Bihar, parts of modern Orissa), after their successful campaign in the Carnatic region at the Battle of Trichinopoly. The leader of the expeditions was Raghoji Bhonsle of Nagpur.[4] The Marathas invaded Bengal five times from April 1742 to March 1751,[5] which caused widespread economic losses in the Bengal Subah.
^Sengupta, N. (2011). Land of Two Rivers: A History of Bengal from the Mahabharata to Mujib. Penguin Books Limited. p. 156. ISBN 978-81-8475-530-5. Archived from the original on 18 March 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
^Sen, Sailendra Nath (2010). An Advanced History of Modern India. Macmillan India. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-230-32885-3. Archived from the original on 27 February 2022. Retrieved 10 June 2021. In 1751,...promising cession of the province of Orissa...Orissa came under the Bhonsle's control.
^McLane, John R. (1993). Land and local kinship in eighteenth-century Bengal. Cambridge University Press. pp. 155–156. ISBN 0521410746.
^Government of Maharashtra (1974). Maharashtra State Gazetteers: Wardha District (2nd ed.). Bombay: Director of Government Printing, Stationery and Publications, Maharashtra State. p. 63. OCLC 77864804.
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