| War |
Fought between |
Time |
| Battle of the Ten Kings |
King Sudas of Trustu-Bharata Trib defeated Ten Kings |
14 BCE |
| Battle of the Hydaspes |
Between King Porus and Alexander |
326 BCE |
| Conquest of the Nanda Empire |
Between Chandragupta Maurya and Dhana Nanda |
321-320 BCE |
| Seleucid-Mauryan war |
Between Chandragupta Maurya and Seleucus |
303 BCE |
| Kalinga War |
Between Ashoka and Rani Padmavati |
262 BCE |
| Common Era(CE) |
| Huna Invasion |
Between Huna and Gupta empire |
458 CE |
| Battle of Pullalur |
Between the Chalukya king Pulakesin II and the Pallava king Mahendravarman I |
618–619 CE |
| Battle of Vatapi |
Between the Pallavas and Chalukyas |
642 CE |
| Battle of Rajasthan |
A series of battles fought between the Umayyad and later the Abbasid caliphates, and kings to the east of the Indus river |
712-740 CE |
| Battle of Peshawar |
Mahmud of Ghazni defeated Jayapala |
1000 CE |
| First Battle of Tarain |
Prithvi Raj Chauhan defeated Muhammad Ghori |
1191 CE |
| Second Battle of Tarain |
Muhammad Ghori defeated Prithvi Raj Chauhan |
1192 CE |
| Battle of Chandawar |
Muhammad Ghori defeated Jaichandra |
1194 CE |
| First Battle of Panipat |
Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodhi |
1526 CE |
| Battle of Khanwa |
Mughal Emperor Babur defeated Rana Sanga of Mewar |
1527 CE |
| Battle of Chanderi |
Babur defeated Medini Rai of Chanderi |
1528 CE |
| Battle of Ghagra or Gogara |
Babur defeated Afghans |
1529 CE |
| Battle of Chausa |
Shershah Suri defeated Mughal Emperor Humayun |
1539 CE |
| Battle of kanauj or Billgram |
Shershah Suri defeated Mughal Emperor Humayun |
1540 CE |
| Second Battle of Panipat |
Akbar defeated Hemu |
1556 CE |
| Battle of Bannihatti or Tallikota |
Deccan sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire |
1565 CE |
| Battle of Haldighati |
Mughal Emperor's forces led by Man Singh I defeated Maharana Pratap |
1576 CE |
| Battle of Kartarpur |
Between Mughal Emperor Shaha Jahan and Sikh led by Guru Hargobind Singh |
1635 CE |
| Battle of Samugarh |
Between Dara Shikoh (the eldest son of Shah Jahan) and his two younger brothers Aurangzeb and Murad Baksh (third and fourth sons of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan) |
1658 CE |
| Battle of Kolhapur |
Shivaji defeated Adilshahi forces |
1659 CE |
| Battle of Purandar |
Mughal forces defeated Shivaji |
1665 CE |
| Battle of Sinhagad |
Between Mughal Empire and Maratha Empire |
1670 CE |
| Battle of Bhupalgarh |
Mughal forces defeated Shivaji |
1679 CE |
| Battle of Palkhed |
The Marathas defeated the Nizam |
1728 CE |
| Battle of Mandsaur |
Malharrao Holkar (Maratha leader) defeated Jai Singh (Rajput ruler) |
1733 CE |
| First Battle of Delhi |
Maratha defeated the Mughals |
1737 CE |
| Battle of Vasai |
Maratha defeated Portuguese |
1939 CE |
| First Battle of Katwa |
Between Nawab of Bengal and Maratha |
1742 CE |
| Second Battle of Katwa |
Between Nawab of Bengal and Maratha |
1745 CE |
| First Carnatic War |
Between British and French forces |
1746-1748 CE |
| Second Carnatic War |
British forces defeated French forces |
1749-1754 CE |
| Battle of Plassey |
British forces defeated Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah of Bengal |
1757 CE |
| Battle of Wandiwash |
Between British and French forces |
1760 CE |
| Third Battle of Panipat |
The King of Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Abdali defeated the Maratha Empire |
1761 CE |
| Battle of Buxar |
Between the British East India Company led by Hector Munro and the combined army of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal; the Nawab of Awadh; and the Mughal King Shah Alam II |
1764 CE |
| First Anglo–Mysore War |
Between the Sultanate of Mysore and the East India Company |
1767–1769 CE |
| First Rohilla War |
Between Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh and the Rohillas |
1773-1774 CE |
| First Anglo-Maratha War |
Between the British East India Company and Maratha Empire |
1775-1782 CE |
| Second Anglo–Mysore War |
Between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company |
1780–1784 CE |
| Third Anglo–Mysore War |
Between the Kingdom of Mysore and the East India Company |
1790–1792 CE |
| Fourth Anglo–Mysore War |
Between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company |
1798–1799 CE |
| Second Anglo-Maratha War |
Between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire |
1803–1805 CE |
| Third Anglo-Maratha War |
Between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire |
1817–1818 CE |
| First Anglo-Sikh War |
Between the Sikh Empire and the East India Company |
1845-1846 CE |
| Second Anglo-Sikh War |
Between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company |
1848-1849 CE |
| Bhutan War |
Between Bhutan and British East India Company |
1865 CE |
| Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Between British India and Afghan |
1919 CE |
| Battle of Imphal |
Between British India (Allied forces) and Japan Emperor |
1944 CE |
