Battle of Rakshasbhuvan

Battle of Rakshasbhuvan
Part of Maratha–Nizam War
Date10 August 1763
Location
Rakshasbhuvan dam, Godaveri, India
Result Maratha victory[1]
Belligerents
 Maratha Confederacy Nizam of Hyderabad
Commanders and leaders
Madhavrao I
Raghunath Rao
Malhar Rao Holkar[2]
Damaji Rao Gaekwad[3]		 Asaf Jah II
Vitthal Sundar †
Vinayak das †
Murad khan (POW)[4]
Casualties and losses
Unknown 10,000[1]

The Battle of Rakshasbhuvan in India was fought on 10 August 1763. After the defeat of the Maratha Confederacy at the Battle of Panipat, their rivals started seizing the opportunity to recover their losses in the past at the hands of Marathas. Particularly, the Nizam of Hyderabad wanted to recover territory he had lost at the Battle of Udgir. He decided to launch a war on the Marathas.[5][1]

  1. ^ a b c Jaques, Tony (30 November 2006). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century [3 volumes]. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 838. ISBN 978-0-313-02799-4.
  2. ^ Ramakrishna Gunesh, Burway (1930). Life Of Subhedar Malhar Rao Holkar. p. 142.
  3. ^ Ramakrishna Gunesh, Burway (1930). Life Of Subhedar Malhar Rao Holkar. p. 142.
  4. ^ "Peshwa Madhav Rao 1". 11 February 2024.
  5. ^ Stewart Gordon (1993). New Cambridge History of India: The Marathas - Cambridge History of India (Vol. 2, Part 4). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139055666.