Maratha invasions of Bengal

Maratha Invasions of Bengal
	Part of Decline of the Mughal Empire
	; A Maratha Ditch, constricted around forts and factories as protection against Maratha raids
Date	April 1742 – March 1751
Location	Bengal Subah (Bengal, Bihar, parts of modern Orissa)
Territorial; changes	Incorporation of Orissa into the Nagpur State
Belligerents
Maratha Confederacy Nagpur;	Nawab of Bengal
Commanders and leaders
Raghoji I; Bhaskar Pandit † ; Janoji Bhonsle ; Sabaji Bhonsle	Alivardi Khan ; Gopal Singha Dev ; Mir Jafar ; Chitrasen Rai ; Rai Durlabh ; Ghulam Mustafa Khan ; Ataullah Khan ; Zainuddin Ahmed ; Abdus Salam ; Sheikh Masum † ; Syed Ahmed Khan
Strength
40,000 (in 1742) ; 12,000 (in 1748)	15,000 Cavalry and 8,000 Musketeers (in 1748)
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown

^ Sen, Sailendra Nath (2010). An Advanced History of Modern India. Macmillan India. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-230-32885-3. Archived from the original on 27 February 2022. Retrieved 10 June 2021. In 1751,...promising cession of the province of Orissa...Orissa came under the Bhonsle's control.
^ McLane, John R. (1993). Land and local kinship in eighteenth-century Bengal. Cambridge University Press. pp. 155–156. ISBN 0521410746.