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{{Infobox Military Conflict
|conflict=Battle of Mahidpur
|partof=the [[Third Anglo-Maratha War]]
|image=
|caption=
|date= 21 December 1817
|place=[[Mahidpur]], [[Malwa]], [[India]]
|territory=
|result=British victory
|combatant1=[[File:British East India Company flag.svg|22px|border]] [[British East India Company]]
|combatant2=[[File:Flag of Hesse.svg|25px]] [[Holkar|Holkar Clan]]
|commander1=[[Sir Thomas Hislop, 1st Baronet|Sir Thomas Hislop]]<br/>[[Sir John Malcolm]]
|commander2=[[Maharaja]] [[Malhar Rao Holkar III]]<br>[[Hari Rao Holkar]]<br/>[[Bhima Bai Holkar]]
|strength1=
|strength2=
|casualties1=174 killed, 604 wounded<ref name="GazHoshangabad"/>
|casualties2=Around 3,000 killed and wounded<ref name="GazHoshangabad"/>
| campaignbox = {{Campaignbox Third Anglo-Maratha War}}
}}

The '''Battle of Mahidpur''' was fought during the [[Third Anglo-Maratha War]] between the [[Holkar]] faction of the [[Maratha Confederacy]] and the [[British East India Company]] at [[Mahidpur]], a town in the [[Malwa]] region, on 21 December 1817.<ref name="GazHoshangabad">{{cite book |author=Madhya Pradesh (India) |title=Madhya Pradesh District Gazetteers: Hoshangabad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hqE8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA77 |year=1827 |publisher=Government Central Press |pages=77–78 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Ravindra Pratap Singh |title=Geography and Politics in Central India: A Case Study of Erstwhile Indore State |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tuwNoJxH25QC&pg=PA16 |year=1987 |publisher=Concept |isbn=978-81-7022-025-1 |pages=16 }}</ref>

On 21 December 1817, the British, led by [[Sir Thomas Hislop, 1st Baronet|Sir Thomas Hislop]], attacked the Holkar army led by 11-year-old Maharaja [[Malhar Rao Holkar III]], 22-year-old Hari Rao Holkar and 20-year-old [[Bhima Bai Holkar]]. The Holkar artillery, led by Roshan Beg, attacked them with a long line of 63 [[cannon]]s. At one point, the British were on the verge of losing the battle. However, they were helped by [[Jaora State|Gafur Khan]], a traitor in the Holkar's camp. Khan deserted the battlefield with the force under his command. After this, the Holkars were decisively defeated.<ref name="GazHoshangabad"/>

Malhar Rao III, Tatya Jog and others escaped to [[Alot]].<ref name="GazHoshangabad"/> A peace treaty was signed on 6 January 1818 at [[Mandsaur]]. Holkars accepted all the terms laid down by the British in the Treaty of Mandsaur. At the conclusion of this Third Anglo-Maratha War, the Holkars lost much of their territory to the British and were incorporated into the [[British Raj]] as a princely state of the [[Central India Agency]].

This battle led to the final destruction of Maratha power. [[Baji Rao II]], who was trying to consolidate Marathas, finally surrendered in June 1818. British abolished the position of [[Peshwa]], and Marathas were limited to the small kingdom of [[Satara State|Satara]] until its annexation to [[Bombay state]] in 1848.

== References ==
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[[Category:Battles involving the United Kingdom|Mahidpur]]
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