List of battles of Rajasthan

Several significant battles are recorded to have taken place in what is now known as Rajasthan.


 * 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 Jalore (1311–12) – Alauddin Khilji defeated Kanhad deo.
 * Battle of Siwana (1308) – Alauddin Khilji defeated Sheetal 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 Haldighati (1576) – Man Singh (the commander of Akbar) defeated Maharana Pratap.
 * 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 Invasion 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 Aravalli hills (1680) - Three separate armies, under Aurangzeb's sons Akbar, Azam and Muazzam, penetrated the Aravalli 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 Jodhpur defeated the Maratha forces of Mahadaji Shinde.
 * Battle of Malpura (1800) - Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh defeated Daulat Rao Sindhia