Mughal-Rajput War (1525)

Mughal-Rajput War Part of Campaigns of Babur Date 1525 Location Punjab, northern India Result Babur victory Belligerents  Mughal Empire Punjabi Rajputs Commanders and leaders Babur Khusrau Shah Kokultash Rana Sangha Hasan Khan Mewati Silhadi Maldeo Rathore many more...

The Mughal-Rajput War was a campaign into the Punjab region of India by the forces of the Timurid ruler Babur. In 1525, after the conquest of Transoxania, Babur invaded the Punjab several times. To campaign he took the time to furnish his army with gunpowder weapons and to train them in their use, meanwhile preserving the more traditional skills of steppe warfare. Not until the end of the year did he invade Hindustan, having been requested the aid of capitulated rajputs against the fearsome Afghan regime of Ibrahim Lodi.

Aftermath

Babur recruited the rajputs into his army to face the Afghans at the Battle of Panipat (1526), where he killed Lodi and his forces seized control of Delhi.

Babur's grandson, Akbar, allied with the Rajputs in 1556. However, he crushed their revolts in the 2nd Mughal-Rajput War. By the later 1700s the Rajputs had lost all of their power.

References

• David, Saul: War