Battle |
Year |
Description |
Battle of Rajasthan |
738 |
Bappa Rawal defeated the armies of the Umayyad Caliphate |
The First Battle of Tarain |
1191 |
Prithviraj Chauhan of Ajmer defeated Mohammad Gori |
Second Battle of Tarain |
1192 |
Muhammad Gori defeated Prithvi Raj Chauhan |
Battle of Ranthambore |
1299 |
Hammir deo defeated a Khilji army under Nusrat Khan |
Siege of Ranthombore |
1301 |
Alauddin Khilji defeated Hammir deo |
Siege of Chittor |
1303 |
Alauddin Khilji defeated Rana Ratan Singh (Rani Padmini and
other ladies committed Jauhar) |
Battle of Siwana |
1308 |
Alauddin Khilji defeated Sheetal deo. |
Battle of Jalore |
1311-12 |
Alauddin Khilji defeated Kanhad deo. |
Battle for Mewar |
1443-1446 |
A series of battles that took place between Mahmud Khilji of
Malwa and Rana Kumbha of Mewar. bloodied by these engagements the Sultan did
not attack Mewar for another ten years. |
Battle of Nagaur |
1456 |
Rana Kumbha defeated the combined armies of Shams Khan
(sultan of Nagaur) and Qutbuddin (Sultan of Gujarat) and captured Nagaur,
Kasili, Khandela and Shakambhari |
Battle of Khatoli |
1517 |
Rana Sanga defeated Ibrahim Lodhi |
Battle of Gagron |
1519 |
Rana Sanga defeated Mahmud Lodi of Malwa |
Battle of Khanwa |
1527 |
Babur defeated Rana Sanga |
Battle of Sammel |
1544 |
Sher Shah Suri’s Pyrrhic victory against the army of Jaita
and Kumpa |
Battle of Merta |
1562 |
Akbar with the help of princes from Bikaner and Amer defeats
Chandrasen Rathore and advances towards Jodhpur. |
First Mughal Invasion of Marwar |
1562-1583 |
Akbar invaded Marwar and occupied Jodhpur. The ruler
Chandrasen Rathore continued his struggle until his death in 1581 after
which Marwar submitted to Mughal rule In 1583. |
Siege of Chittorgarh |
1568 |
Emperor Akbar defeated Rao Jaimal and Patta (Udai Singh II
escaped with his family to Udaipur) |
Battle of Haldi ghati |
1576 |
In between maharana pratap and Man Singh the mugal
administrator. Akbar forces won |
Battles of Kumbalgarh |
1578 |
In between Maharana Pratap and Shahbaj Khan, the mugal
commander, mugal ruled over Kumbalgarh |
Battle of Dewair |
1582 |
Maharana Pratap attacked a Mughal stronghold this resulted
in the flight of the Mughal soldiers and the closing of all the 36 Mughal
posts in Mewar. |
Second Mughal Invasi on of Marwar |
1679-1707 |
Auranzeb took Marwar under his direct control after the
death of Maharaja Jaswant Singh. The Rathore army under Durgadas Rathore
carried out a relentless struggle against the occupying forces. In 1707
after the death of Aurangzeb Durgadas defeated the local Mughal force and
reoccupied Jodhpur and their lost territories. |
Battle of Aravalee hills |
1680 |
Three separate armies, under Aurangzeb’s sons Akbar, Azam
and Muazzam, penetrated the Aravalee hills from different directions but
Akbar defected to the Rajputs resulting in the defeat of the Mughals by the
armies of Rana Raj Singh I and Durgadas Rathore. |
Battle of Maonda and Mandholi |
1767 |
Jaipur forces defeat the forces of Bharatpur |
Battle of Tunga or Battle of Lalsot |
1787 |
Combined forces of Jaipur and Jodhour defeated the Maratha
forces of Mahadaji Shinde |
Battle of Malpura |
1800 |
Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh defeated Daulat Rao Sindhia |