A grand alliance of Durrani from the West and the Bengalis from the East defeated the Marhattas. Many consider the battle of Panipat a curcial battle between Islam and Hinduism. The defeat at the hands of the Muslim alliance led to the desruction of the Marhatta power into small prncipalities for which they never recovered.
Proxy war in Afghanistan: Strategic depth vs Strategic clout. The story of Afghanistan and colonialism begins a long time ago. British tried to take up White Man’s burden in Afghanistan. It suffered badly in Kabul and could not hold it. NATO Lessons: 1880 UK defeat at Maiwand-Afghanistan.
On the one hand Delhi lectures Pakistan on the dangers of meddling in Afghanistan and creating Frankenstein monsters; on the other hand it cannot resist aggravating the Afghans by supporting a puppet governemnt in Kabul. There are no moral compunctions in the corridors of Indian power and no voices of reason in Bharati halls full of representatives of the people that castigate the politicians in power for supporting puppets in Kabul. ( People hate Karzai support Taliban: Afghan Senator Ahmadzai ) If the Indian analysts are right then Pakistan has suffering because of its adventurism in Afghansitan. Those same analysts do not excoriate the policies on the same subject. Afghanistan: India packing its bags? Now or Never! . The Indian media says boo to the inverventionist policy of Islamabad and hooray for Delhi’s revanchist dreams. Nightmare scenario for India in Kabul: The Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Indian machinations in Kabul are reminiscent of the Marhattas provoking the Pakhtuns and the Balauch in the 18th century. With dreams of Mughal grandeur, the Marhattas began to think of themselves as successors to the Mughals. They began harassing the states of the Punjabis, Pathans and the Baluch. By aggravating the powers, they galvanized a grand alliance which included Ahmed Shah Durrani to the West and Siraj Ud Daulah to the East. The Marhattas ultimately paid the consequences of the harassment–they were decimated from history.
Bengal 1700 -1792 map Bengladesh and West Bengal map
“The lofty and spacious tents, lined with silks and broadcloths, were surmounted by large gilded ornaments, conspicuous at a distance… Vast numbers of elephants, flags of all descriptions, the finest horses, magnificently caparisoned … seemed to be collected from every quarter … it was an imitation of the more becoming and tasteful array of the Mughuls in the zenith of their glory.” — Grant Duff, describing the Maratha army[5]
The Marhatta dreams of conquering Kandhar was not realized. The Marhattas were soundly defeated in 1761 and perished as a political entity.
3rd Battle of Panipat: Pakistan
We have already brought Lahore, Multan, Kashmir and other subahs on this side of Attock under our rule for the most part, and places which have not come under our rule we shall soon bring under us. Ahmad Khan Abdali’s son Taimur Sultan and Jahan Khan have been pursued by our troops, and their troops completely looted. Both of them have now reached Peshawar with a few broken troops…we have decided to extend our rule up to Kandahar. — Raghoba’s letter to the Peshwa, May 4, 1758[2]
For the past 5000 years the Khyber pass has witnessed invading armies come into South Asia and then become resident in the fertile plains of the Punjab and the Ganges.
Abdullah Hussain Haroon, Pakistan’s permanent UN representative, in a letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has described as ‘regrettable’ the attempt being made internationally to “involve Pakistan through its government and people to bear the brunt of the outrage against the Mumbai incident”.
Calling the ‘American intervention in Iraq’ among ‘the costliest mistakes made by mankind’, he writes that the international community is better served by the ‘reality of peace’.
He stresses that it is ‘imperative and the need of the hour’ to avoid the ‘blame game’. This the ambassador follows with what has become his hallmark, since he states this in every other speech he makes.
He writes, “In my various discourses at the United Nations I have tried to explain that in history, whenever the Khyber is breached, India becomes vulnerable and the flash point is always within Indian boundaries typically at Panipat. For a long time we have tried to tell the world that the frontline has shifted from Afghanistan into Pakistan and the consequences for India, Middle East and China are obvious. It is the intent of the anti-peace and nihilistic people who wish to create a Trotsky-like formula, with the eventual goal of acquiring a stronghold in Pakistan. The world prefers to perceive this as an insurgency and does not recognise the potential of this movement in Afghanistan and Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province to spill over into adjoining countries, thereby widening the conflict.” Abdullah Hussain Haroon, Pakistan’s permanent UN representative, December 1st, 2008. The Orignal Rupee News article was written on November 3rd, 2008. It was updated with the pertinent comments by Ambassador Haroon on December 1st, 2008.
“The wreath of banquet overnight lay withered on the neck,
Our hands and scarfs were saffron-dyed for signal of despair,
When we went forth to Paniput to battle with the ~Mlech~,
Ere we came back from Paniput and left a kingdom there.”
– With Scindia to Delhi by Rudyard Kipling
Defeat in Afghanistan: Battle of Maiwand
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Somnath and Delhi must have felt the same way as the residents of Islamabad and New Delhi today. Those who define the fault line as the Durand Line forget that in 1526 the fault line was was Panipat not the Hindu Kush.
But 1947 has little or no relevance for a more serious conflagration threatening to engulf the region. I am inclined to look at the turmoil in Afghanistan and its impact on both as rooted in 1526 if not earlier. That year the First Battle of Panipat was fought just north of Delhi between Mughal adventurer Babar and Delhi’s Pathan ruler Ibrahim Lodhi. To my mind the Uzbeks and the Tajiks of Afghanistan’s recent Northern Alliance, and Kabul’s current dominant rulers, form the corner once represented by Babar, who became India’s first Mughal emperor after winning at Panipat.
Incidentally, that battle’s verdict was influenced by a superior technological prowess that came in the form of gunpowder and cannons, which Babar had introduced for the first time in Indian warfare. The challengers, the still ill-equipped but tenacious Pashtuns, seem to closely represent the forces that once belonged to the former fellow Pathan ruler of Delhi.
The venue of the still continuing stand-off between two of South Asia’s most fiercely unrelenting Muslim groups has shifted from Panipat to the regions around an artificially created Durand Line but much of its energy seems to still derive from the historically ingrained fault lines seen in 1526. Add to this the element of the colonial Great Game in a new, more lacerating avatar, predicated on a bizarre if elusive hunt for a few subversives, and we can grasp the genesis of the ferocious confrontation that the NSAs seem to have agreed to face jointly. The writer is Dawn’s correspondent in Delhi.jawednaqvi@gmail.com
Then there were three battles of Panipat.
The 1st Battle of Panipat (1526): Mughal Babur against the Delhi Sultan Ibrahim Lodi
The 2nd Battle of Panipat (1556): Akbar the Great vs Adil Shah Suri and Hemu
The 3rd Battle of Panipat (1761): Afghans Pakhtuns, Punajabis, Baluch vs the Marathas
The decline of the Mughal Empire had led to territorial gains for the Maratha Confederacy. Ahmad Shah Abdali, amongst others, was unwilling to allow the Marathas’ gains to go unchecked. In 1759, he raised an army from the Pashtun tribes with help from the Baloch people and made several gains against the smaller garrisons. The Marathas, under the command of Sadashivrao Bhau, responded by gathering an army of 100,000 people with which they ransacked the Mughal capital of Delhi. There followed a series of skirmishes along the banks of the river Yamuna at Karnal and Kunjpura which eventually turned into a two-month-long siege led by Abdali against the Marathas. Wiki
The impact of the invasions from Farghana, Samarkand, Bokhara and Ghazni had long term impacts on the Subcontinent as we see it today. These invasions destroyed the power of the Brahmins and at the very least liberated 450 million souls who would have been in total bondage of the caste system. The 450 million Muslims (in Pakistan, India and Bangaldesh) today enjoy a decent life whereas the 250 million Dalits (leftover0 are still struggling to find humanity in their souls and their destiny. Taliban deny attacking Marriott: All fingers point to Indian RAW- “No one should ever underestimate our capability and determination to foil any nefarious designs against the security of Pakistan,
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Moin ansari saheb,
You should be praying for a fourth battle of Panipat, non? After all every battle ends with Indian butts being whooped
Dev Kant
Kant jee:
Thank you for your valuable feedback. This article was making the case that the Khyber has always been a passageway for invaders. 2008 is nothing new…..you took it into a different direaction that needs a response also… sarcasm cannot hide the history where Muslims ruled India for more than a thousand years….
Taking advantage of a civil war isn’t a victory.
If Pakistan lost 1948, how did Azad Kashmir and Norhtern Areas come into being?
If India won 1965 what territory did it hold? Lahore? Sailkot?
Asalam walaikum Moin Sir,
If you want 4 th battle of Panipat, We are ready for it. We don’t want to hold a territory by force. World knows Mrs Indira Gandhi Broke Pakistan in almost two equal parts. Do you know it or should we remind you.Khyber pass has been used by invaders . Now you have to care for it. Not we. Azad naam rakhne se PoK azad nahi ho gaya hai. If you people care for Kashmir why Pakistan has ceded about 5000 sq. KM territory to China.
Moin Mian what do you say about this??
http://www.politicsparty.com/index.php
Not sure what you want me to comment on. It was really hard to read the opinions of the writer on the gaudy site. Too many colors and no information and no references. It is the site owners opinions which have no basis in fact.
If you enjoy reading that sort of thing, go ahead…we will not waste anytime on reading unsubstantiated stories made up by IIT rejects.
Simply repeating falsehood does not make it truth.
Of course what the site says has no basis in fact. Rice said no such thing. In fact the White House has repeatedly said that they have seen no evidrnce of any Pakistani involvement in the Mumbai balsts. We have monitored the statements of Ms. Rice which have repeatedly said that “there seems to be an Al-Qiada hand” in this.
If there was satellite imagery then why wasn’t the attack prevented?
Pakistani is a nuclear armed state and spent a decade under US sanctions to build and develop nuclear weapons. The US for the past 30 years tried to prevent Pakistan from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Pakistn’s 250 nuclear weapons and 1000 missiles are not for decoration. Pakistan does not have to crassly threaten anyone. Anybody with an iota of literacy knows the threat. Pakistan’s nukes are for defensive purposes only. It has not used them for 30 years and will not use them unless threatened.
As Salam O alaikum;
I want to know about the Shrine of Pir Turk Kaman In Panipat And i also want Pir sahab Shijrah any one guide me i m very grateful to him
if there is 4th battle of panipat all muslims in pakistan will be erased, time 4 hindus to purify indusvalley from savages and uncultured beasts
Its the “uncultured beasts” from the Hindu Kush (aptly named–from “khud kushi”) that conquered Bharat—expect mroe of the same from the “unclutured beasts from the East”, and the “not so uncultured beasts from the North”. Lanka too is Anti-Bharat, as is Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, China, Maldives, Mayanmar, and of course Pakistan.
Fantasies of a virtual country…natural countries were are and will be always Afghanistan and India side by side…
@ Anil
Even during the British Colonial era, there was no British presence in the artificially constructed country of Afghanistan. Lord Curzon announced “On to the Oxus” but then had to reverse his policies to “Back to the Indus“.
Bharat got evicted from Bharat when its favorite Najibullah was found hanging on a lamp post.
That eviction was a picnic party—this time around it won’t be so much fun.
Read the following from a Bharat newspaper and see how natural is the ‘side by side” working.
Though India insists that it won’t retreat from Afghanistan, there are signs that it is indeed scaling down its presence. It is not taking on new projects and various Indian schemes have been put on hold. India’s strategic space in its neighbourhood seems to have shrunk over the last few years. By failing to craft its own narrative on Af-Pak ever since US troops went into Afghanistan in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, New Delhi has allowed the West, and increasingly Pakistan, to dictate the contours of Indian policy towards the region. More damagingly, by failing to assert its profile in Afghanistan, India has failed to win the confidence of those constituencies in Afghanistan who considered India a natural ally. India now needs a rapid readjustment of its Kabul policy; otherwise, great turbulence lies ahead in India’s vicinity. Business Standard.