Battle of Mahilpur (1757)

Battle of Mahilpur
Part of Indian campaign of Ahmad Shah Durrani and Afghan-Sikh wars
DateDecember, 1757
Location
Mahilpur, Punjab, Durrani Empire (Modern day India)
Result Sikh/Adina Beg victory
Belligerents

Sikh Misls

Adina Beg		 Durrani Empire
Commanders and leaders
Jassa Singh Ahluwalia
Vadbhag Singh Sodhi
Karam Singh
Adina Beg
Khwaja Mirza Khan
Sadiq Beg Khan
Raja Bhup Singh		 Murad Khan
Buland Khan †
Sarfraz Khan
Strength
25,000 including Sikhs[1] 25,000

The Battle of Mahilpur was fought between the Sikh Misls and Adina Beg Khan against the Durrani Empire in December 1757.[2] Following the 4th invasion of Ahmad Shah Durrani, he appointed Timur Shah as the viceroy of Punjab with Jahan Khan as his deputy.[3] The Afghans appointed Adina Beg Khan as the faujdar of the Jalandhar Doaba and exempted him from attending court at lahore, on the condition that Adina Beg pay revenue to the Afghan government.[3][4] Soon a dispute regarding the payment of revenue occurred between Adina Beg and the Afghans.[5] This dispute soon escalated which resulted in Jahan Khan sending an Afghan force to arrest Adina Beg.[6][4] Adina Beg formed a military alliance with the Sikhs under the command of Jassa Singh Ahluwalia and Vadbhag Singh Sodhi.[7] Adina Beg also gained the support of Sadiq Beg Khan, Khwaja Mirza Khan, and Raja Bhup Singh.[6][2] Adina Beg along with the Sikh forces fought the Afghans at Mahilpur.[7] The battle resulted in a victory for Adina Beg and the Sikhs and resulted in the entire Jalandhar Doaba being occupied and sacked by the Sikh forces.[2][7][8]

  1. ^ Surjit Singh Gandhi (1999). Sikhs In The Eighteenth Century. Singh Bros. p. 221. ISBN 9788172052171.
  2. ^ a b c Gupta, Hari (2007). History of the Sikhs volume II Evolution of the Sikh confederacies (1707-1769). Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. pp. 137–140. ISBN 81-215-0248-9.
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  7. ^ a b c Singh, Ganda (1959). Ahmad Shah Durrani father of modern Afghanistan. Asia Publishing House. pp. 196–198.
  8. ^ Gandhi, Rajmohan (2013). Punjab: A History from Aurangzeb to Mountbatten. Aleph Book Company. pp. 198–199. ISBN 978-93-83064-4-1-0.