Battle of Manupur

The Battle of Manupur was fought between the Mughal Empire and the Durrani Empire in March 1748 at the frontiers of Sirhind which ended in victory for the Indian coalition.

Battle of Manupur
Part of Indian Campaign of Ahmad Shah Durrani
DateMarch 1748 [2]
Location
Sirhind
Result Allied victory[3][4]
Belligerents
Mughal Empire
Sikh Misls
Kingdom of Jaipur[1]		 Durrani Empire
Commanders and leaders
Ahmad Shah Bahadur
Itimad-ad-Daula, Qamar-ud-Din Khan †
Mir Mannu
Adina Beg
Safdar Jang
Ishwari Singh
Charat Singh
Jassa Singh Ahluwalia
Ala Singh		 Ahmad Shah Durrani
Jahan Khan
Strength
Disputed
200,000 men[5]
70,000 men[6]
60,000 men[7]
Hundreds of thousands of non-combatants[8]		 Disputed
30,000[9]
12,000[8][10]

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  2. ^ Grewal 1990, p. 87.
  3. ^ Grewal, J.S. (1990). The Sikhs of the Punjab. Cambridge University Press. p. 87. ISBN 0-521-63764-3. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
  4. ^ Jacques, Tony (2006). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges. Greenwood Press. p. 631. ISBN 978-0-313-33536-5. Archived from the original on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
  5. ^ Gupta, Hari Ram (1978). History of the Sikhs: Evolution of Sikh confederacies, 1708-1769. Munshiram Manoharlal. p. 84. A huge army of 2 lakhs under Wazir Qamar-ud-din Khan was sent to check the progress of the Afghans.
  6. ^ Srivastava, Ashirbadi Lal (1954). The First Two Nawabs of Awadh. Shiva Lal Agarwala & Company. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-8426-1549-5.
  7. ^ Adamec 2010, p. 2.
  8. ^ a b Srivastava 1954, p. 116.
  9. ^ Adamec, Ludwig W. (2010-04-07). The A to Z of Afghan Wars, Revolutions and Insurgencies. Scarecrow Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-4617-3189-4.
  10. ^ Sarkar, Sir Jadunath (1964). Fall of the Mughal Empire. M. C. Sarkar. p. 130.