Plunder of Murshidabad (1742)

Plunder of Murshidabad
Part of Maratha invasions of Bengal
Date1742 CE
Location
Murshidabad, Bengal Subah (now West Bengal, India)
Result Maratha victory[1][2]
Belligerents
 Maratha Confederacy
 • Nagpur		 Nawab of Bengal
Commanders and leaders
Bhaskar Pandit
Mir Habib		 Haji Ahmed

The Plunder of Murshidabad was an event during the Maratha invasions of Bengal where Maratha forces plundered Murshidabad and committed numerous atrocities against its people, especially women.[citation needed] The city had been left unguarded as the Nawab of Bengal, Alivardi Khan was at the Orissa campaign where he repulsed the Marathas at First Battle of Katwa.[3]

  1. ^ Lindsay, J. O. (1957). The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 7, the Old Regime, 1713-1763. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-04545-2.
  2. ^ History of Orissa: From the Earliest Times to the British Period. Bharatiya Publishing House. 1980.
  3. ^ Lindsay, J. O. (1957). The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 7, The Old Regime, 1713-1763. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-04545-2.