| Plunder of Murshidabad | |||||||||
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| Part of Maratha invasions of Bengal | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Maratha Confederacy• &sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Nagpur_State_flag.png){kind=small} Nagpur |
 Nawab of Bengal | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Bhaskar Pandit Mir Habib |
Haji Ahmed | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||||
The Plunder of Murshidabad was an event during the Maratha invasions of Bengal where Maratha forces plundered Murshidabad and committed numerous atrocities against its people, especially women.[5] The city had been left unguarded as the Nawab of Bengal, Alivardi Khan was at the Orissa campaign where he repulsed the Marathas at First Battle of Katwa.[6]
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- ^ History of Orissa: From the Earliest Times to the British Period. Bharatiya Publishing House. 1980.
- ^ Vaish, Devi Charan Lal (1972). "The Rise of British Power and the Fall of Marathas".
- ^ Bengal, Past & Present: Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society. The Society. 1934.
- ^ Jadunath Sarkar (1932). Bihar and Orissa During the Fall of Mughal Empire (Jadunath Sarkar).
- ^ Lindsay, J. O. (1957). The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 7, The Old Regime, 1713-1763. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-04545-2.