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Battle of Khajuha | |||||||||
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Part of Mughal war of succession (1658-1659) | |||||||||
The Mughal armies of Aurangzeb and Shah Shuja confront each other | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Aurangzeb | Shah Shuja | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Aurangzeb Mir Jumla II Islam Khan Kilich Khan Shaista Khan Asad Khan Muhammad Saleh Kamboh Haji Shafi Isfahani Nur Beg Dur Beg Rustam Beg Kunwar Ram Singh |
Shah Shuja Buland Akhtar Sultan Bang Zainul Abedin Mirza Ismail Beg | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
90,000[2] 120 cannons 8,000 war elephants |
23,000[3] 110 cannons 10,000 war elephants | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
11,000 | 9,000 |
The Battle of Khajuha was fought on January 5, 1659, between the newly crowned Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb and Shah Shuja who also declared himself Mughal Emperor in Bengal. Shuja's army rested by the tank of Khajwa, about 30 miles to the west of Fatehpur- Haswa in'the Allahabad District, between the Ganges and the Jumna.