| Battle of Ghaghra | |||||||||
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| Part of Mughal conquests | |||||||||
 Ghaghra River | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Mughal Empire |
Eastern Afghan Confederacy •  Lodi dynasty• Lohani dynasty Sultanate of Bengal | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Babur Humayun Bairam Khan Askari Mirza Muhammad Zaman Mirza Sultan Jalal ud-Din Sherki Sultan Junaid Birlas Ustad Ali Quli Mustafa Rumi Sher Shah Suri (defected) |
 Sultan Nusrat ShahSultan Mahmud Lodi †Sultan Jalal ud-Din Lohani † Bayezid † Biban † Fateh Khan Shirwani † Shah Muhammad Maaruf † Bhaktuddin Aibek (POW) Hakam Khan (POW) | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 50,000[1] |
100,000[2] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| unknown |
entire army[3] | ||||||||
  Battle of Ghaghra Location within South Asia  Battle of Ghaghra Battle of Ghaghra (Bihar) | |||||||||
The Battle of Ghaghra, fought in 1529, was a great battle for the conquest of India by the Mughal Empire. It followed the first Battle of Panipat in 1526 and the Battle of Khanwa in 1527. The forces of Mughal Emperor Babur of the emerging Mughal Empire were joined by Indian allies in battle against the Eastern Afghan Confederates under Sultan Mahmud Lodi and the Sultanate of Bengal under Sultan Nusrat Shah.[4]
- ^ A History of India Under the Two First Sovereigns of the House of Taimur, Báber and Humáyun, By William Erskine, Published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854,Public Domain
- ^ A History of India Under the Two First Sovereigns of the House of Taimur, Báber and Humáyun, By William Erskine, Published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854,Public Domain
- ^ Jean Paul Roux,Babur:History Of The Great Mongols,Pp:370
- ^ Joshi, Rita (1985). The Afghan Nobility and the Mughals: 1526-1707. Vikas Publishing House. ISBN 978-0-7069-2752-8.