List of wars involving India

• Bharatas ruled entire
  Bharata Khanda
  .

• After Pandavas victory, entire North India or central India come under Kuru rule.

• Kosala annexation of Kāsī

• Kosala annexation of three Gaṇasaṅgha

• Pradyota
  of Avanti

• Magadhan annexation of Anga

• Persian rule established over the northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent

• Magadhan annexation of Avanti

• Magadhan annexation of Kosala

• Magadhan annexation of Vajji confederacy

• Annexation of Punjab
• Porus became his province chief

• Fall of Nanda Empire
• Consolidation of the Maurya Empire

• Maurya annexation of all of the Macedonian Satrapies in the Indus River Valley along with conquest of Persian territories such as Arachosia, Gedrosia and Paropamisadae by the Mauryans ^[1][2][3]

• Maurya annexation of Kalinga

• Harshavardhana
  South Indian expandation halted
• Part of imperial conquest of Pulakeshin II

• Result of battle is inconclusive by mostly historians
• Part of Chalukya–Pallava Wars

• Pallava victory and conquest of
  Vatapi
• Part of Chalukya–Pallava Wars

• Arab and later Muslim invasions halted in India for next 250 years.

(861–870)

Medieval India

• Hindu Shahis
• Buddhist tribal chiefs

• Saffarid dynasty

• Dharmapāla subjugated the throne of Nepal which was under Tibetan rule
• Devapāla conquered upto the Himalayan region of Nepal and Tibet
• Devapāla successfully conquered the Tibetan principality of Punjab

• Beginning of Muslim rule in the Indian Subcontinent

• Kalinga and Bengal annexed as vassal states of the Chola Empire
• Part of imperial conquest of
  Rajendra Chola I

(1175–1206)

• Battle of Kasahrada
  (1178 CE)
• First Battle of Tarain
  (1191 CE)
• Second Battle of Tarain
  (1192 CE)

Sena dynasty Soomra dynasty Ghaznavids Qarmatians Tibetan tribes

• Fundation of Delhi Sultanate

• Mongol forces expelled from India

• End of
  Kakatiya Empire

• Rana Hammir Singh defeated Tughlaq Army
• Muhammad bin Tughluq taken prisoner

• Withdrawal by the Delhi Sultanate
• Delhi recognises sovereignty of the
  Sultan of Bengal

• Ujjainiyas flee into the forest and lead a guerilla warfare resistance

• Delhi is sacked and looted
• End of
  Tughluq dynasty

• Sultan Mahmud Khalji taken prisoner

(1501)

 

• 3rd Portuguese India Armada

Arab privateers

 

• 4th Portuguese India Armada

(1504)

Vassal Malabari states

• Edapalli
• Cranganore
• Kottakkal
• Kingdom of Tanur
• Beypore
• Chaliyam
• Pariyapuram
• Other Indian States^[4]

Kingdom of Cochin

(1505–1517)

• Battle of Chaul
• Battle of Diu
• Siege of Jeddah

• Start of Ottoman–Portuguese confrontations on the Indian Ocean.
• Start of Gujarati–Portuguese conflicts on Indian subcontinent.

 

• Portuguese India

 

• Portuguese India

(1508)

 

• Portuguese India

(1508–1573)

• Battle of Chaul
• Battle of Diu
• Siege of Diu (1531)
• Siege of Diu (1538)
• Siege of Diu (1546)
• Battle of Bharuch
• Portuguese conquest of Daman
• Part of
  Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts
  (1538–1559)

Supported by:

Kingdom of Calicut

 Ottoman Empire (since 1517)

 

• Portuguese India

• Establishment of
  Portuguese Diu
  .
• Treaty of Bassein (1534).
• Establishment of Portuguese Bassein.
• Establishment of Portuguese Daman.
• Consolidation of Portuguese control in the Gulf of Khambhat.
• Start of
  Mughal-Portuguese conflicts
  .

(1510)

• Portuguese India

• Consolidation of Portuguese India authority.

(1513)

 

• Portuguese India

 

• Portuguese Goa

(1517)

 

• Portuguese India

(1518–1658)

• Battle of Vedalai
• Portuguese conquest of the Jaffna kingdom
  • Portuguese invasion of the Jaffna kingdom (1560)
  • Portuguese invasion of the Jaffna kingdom (1591)
• Siege of Kotte (1557–1558)
• Battle of Mulleriyawa
• Siege of Colombo (1587–88)
• Campaign of Danture
• Battle of Balana
• Kandyan commerce raiding against Portugal (1612–1613)
• Battle of Mulleriyawa (1624)
• Battle of Jaffna (1628)
• Battle of Randeniwela
• Battle of Gannoruwa
• Siege of Galle (1640)
• Action of 23 March 1654
• Action of 2 May 1654

 

 Kingdom of Kandy

Kingdom of Jaffna

Supported by:

Kingdom of Tanjore

 Dutch East India Company (From 1638)

 

• Portuguese India
• Portuguese Ceylon
  • Lascarins

 Kingdom of Kotte

• Establishment and then destruction of
  Raigama
  .
• Capture of Colombo, Galle, Jaffna, Raigama and much of Sitawaka by the Dutch and the establishment of Dutch Ceylon.

• Northeast Rajputana annexed by Rana Sanga
• Part of Rana Sanga's conquests.

• Rana Sanga conquer most of Malwa region
• Part of Rana Sanga's conquests.

• The boundaries of Rana Sanga's military influence came to extend within striking distance of Agra.
• Chanderi bestowed to Medini Rai.
• Part of Rana Sanga's conquests.

• Royal treasuries of Gujarat plundered by Rana Sanga
• Idar given to Rao Rai Mal Rathore
• Part of Rana Sanga's conquests.

• Part of Krishnadevaraya's conquests.

• Delhi Sultanate annexed by Mughals
• Foundation of the Mughal Empire

• Part of
  Calicut-Portuguese
  wars

 

• Portuguese India

• Afghans

• Mughal and Afghan Forces retreated
• Bayana region captured by Rajput Forces
• Part of Rana Sanga's conquests.
• Starting of
  Mughal–Rajput Wars

• Mughal rule established in North India by Babur and Agra became centre of their power from Kabul.

• Bihar annexed by the Mughals

• Humayun was soundly defeated
• Resulted in 15 year's exile in the court of
  Shah Tahmasp I

• Bikaner and Merta became independent from
  Marwar

Supported by:

 Portuguese Empire

• Portuguese India

• Re-Establishment of Mughal Empire By Humayun

• Mughal dynasty rule restored in North India
• Hemchandra Vikramaditya
  Empire decline

• Hem Chandra annexed mostly Mughals or Sur Empire's region and established a strong Hindu Empire
• Part of 22 battles fought by Hemu

• Vijayanagara was destroyed or looted by Muslim armies.
• Penukonda became second capital of Vijaynagar Empire.

• The Mughal Empire swept into the territories of Udai Singh II

• Rajput leader Rai Surjan Hada surrenders Ranthambore Fort

(1570 – 1574)

• Siege of Chaliyam

Co-belligerents:

Princely states of the Kanara coast

Kalinyamat Sultanate

Sultanate of Ternate

Sultanate of Tidore

Mappila Muslims

• Mughal annexation of Bengal and formation of Bengal Subah

• Mughals were unable to capture Maharana Pratap & unable to annexed Mewar

• Part of
  Mughal-Portuguese conflicts

 

• Portuguese India

• Result of war led to the automatic liquidation of all 36 Mughal military outposts in Mewar

(1586)

 

• Portuguese India

• Macau
• Portuguese India

• El Piñal
• Philippines

(1599–1600)

• Portuguese India

(1601–1661)

• Part of Eighty Years' War and Thirty Years' WarAsia
• Battle of Bantam
• Capture of Amboina
• Battle of Changi (1603)
• Siege of Malacca (1606)
• Battle of Cape Rachado
• Battle of Macau
• Action of 1 February 1625
• Battle off Hormuz (1625)
• Battle of Goa (1638)
• Action of 30 September 1639
• Siege of Galle (1640)
• Siege of Malacca (1641)
• Action of 23 March 1654
• Action of 2 May 1654
• Dutch conquest of Malabar (1658-1663)

• Portuguese India
• Brazilian colonial forces
• Portuguese Angola
• Portuguese Mozambique
• Portuguese Malacca
• Portuguese Ceylon
• Portuguese Macau

Supported by:

• Spanish Empire (until 1640)
•  Kingdom of Cochin
• Ming China
• Hormuz
• Potiguara Tupis

 

• Dutch East Indies
•  Dutch West Indies
  • Dutch Brazil

Supported by:

•  Kingdom of England (until 1640)
•  France (until 1640)
• Safavid Empire
• Johor Sultanate
• Ternate
• Ayutthaya
• Kingdom of Kandy
• Sitawaka
• 
  Jaffna
• Kingdom of Kongo
• Kingdom of Ndongo
• Rio Grande Tupis
  Nhandui Tarairiu Tribe

• Formation of the
  Dutch Empire
  .
• Both sides claim victory in India.

• Amar Singh I led a hard-fought battle to defend his territory, and personally killed the Mughal commander Sultan Khan
• Asaf Khan retreated from the battlefield.

(1612)

• Portuguese India

• Amar Singh I Surrendered
• Mewar became a vassal of Mughal Empire

• Extension of Ahom influence to the Manas river

• It was the battle which cause the complete disintegration of the Vijayanagar Empire, which was reviving slowly.

• Sikh assert power
• Mughal invulnerability shattered

• 14,000 Mughal soldiers killed
• Governor of Jalandhar killed

• Safavid annexation of Kandahar

(1624–1636)^[6][7][8]

• Spanish East Indies
• Council of Portugal
  • Macau
  • Goa
  • Malacca

 

Dutch East India Company

• Dutch hegemony on Southeast Asia.

(1631–32)

 

• Portuguese India

• Portuguese retake Fort Jesus

(1632)

• Part of
  Mughal-Portuguese conflicts

 

• Portuguese India

• Entire Mughal force killed

• 35,000 Mughal soldiers killed
• 100 taken prisoner
• Governor of Kabul killed

• Guru Hargobind led Sikh army deafeated Mughals
• Shah Jahan ends attacks on Sikh
• 50,000-96,000 Mughals killed

• Aurangzeb captured Orchha
• Jhujhar Singh escaped.

• Mughals repulsed

 

• Portuguese India

(1640)

 

• Danish India

(1642–1698)^[9]

 

• Danish India

• Danish initial victory at sea, but it's demmands were never accomplished by Mughals.

• Safavid/Persian re-annexation of Kandahar

• Mughal repulsed

• No Sikh soldiers killed
• 3 Mughal Generals killed

• Mughal annexation of southeastern Bengal

(1666–1758)

 United Kingdom

• English East India Company^[10]

Portuguese Empire^[11][a]

• Portuguese India

 

• Dutch East India Company

• Aurangzeb was unable to gain any lasting success

• Mughal withdrawal after signing a treaty with the Ladakhis
• Tibetan victory in another attack in 1684 with the assistance of reinforcements from the Zungar Empire
• Treaty of Tingmosgang

(1683–1684)

 Portuguese Empire

• Portuguese India

• Mughal Empire annexes Bijapur State

• British conclusion of peace with the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1689

• Mughal Empire annexes Golconda

Kahlur

Garhwal

Kangra

Guler

Hindur

Siba

Jaswan

Kangra State

Bijarwal State

(1692–1693)

• Part of
  Mughal-Portuguese conflicts

 Portuguese Empire

• Portuguese India

• Siege of Mombasa (1696–1698)
• Battle of Surat (1704)

 Portuguese Empire

• Portuguese India
• Portuguese Mombasa

• Omani forces capture Fort Jesus.
• End of Portuguese hegemony in Southeast Africa.

Coalition of 22 Hill States (Rajas)

• Sikhs hold off attacking forces
• 150,000+ of the coalition force killed
• Sikh suffer minor casualties
• Sikh leave Anandpur

Coalition of 22 Hill States (Rajas)

• Mughals and Hill Rajas taken an oath to never attack the Sikh if they abandon Anandpur
• Mughals and Hill Rajas break oath

Coalition of 22 Hill States (Rajas)

• Fail to capture Guru Gobind Singh
• Mughal and Hill Rajas suffer heavy casualties

• Mughal emperor sued for peace
• Restoration of the Rajput holdings which had been annexed by the previous Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.

(1725–1726)^[12]

 Portuguese Empire

• Portuguese India

• Peace of Bassein

(1729–1732)

 Portuguese Empire

• Portuguese India

Supported by:

• Start of Novas Conquistas

• Siege of Alorna
• Siege of Tiracol

 

• Kolhapur State
• Sawantwadi State

• Portuguese India

Supported by: Rajahnate of Soonda Kingdom of Sawantwadi

• Persian occupation and plundering of Delhi

• Dutch colonization halted in Travancore

• Portuguese India

• Peshwas

• 
  Nawab of the Carnatic

• Maratha annexation of Tiruchirappalli

• 
  Nawab of Bengal

• Maratha annexation of the territory up to the river Suvarnarekha from Bengal

(1744–1748)

• Part of War of the Austrian Succession

Nizam of Hyderabad

• Nawab of Carnatic

• French East India Company

• 
  British East India Company

(1749–1754)

• French East India Company

Mughal Empire

Kingdom of Mysore

• 
  British East India Company

 Maratha Empire

Hyderabad State (Nasir Jung)

• Treaty of Pondicherry

(1752)

• Portuguese India

• Third Carnatic War

 France

Austria
Russia (until 1762)
Spanish Empire (from 1761)
Sweden (1757–62)
 Saxony
Mughal Empire (from 1757)

 Prussia

 Great Britain
Hanover
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Iroquois Confederacy
Portugal (from 1761)
Hesse-Kassel

• French cession of New France (excluding Louisiana) to Britain and recognition of British supremacy in Bengal
• Spanish cession of Florida to Britain
• French cession of Louisiana to Spain
• British cession of Cuba and Manila (Philippine Islands) to Spain
• Britain restored the Indian factories to France, but forbade French traders from administering them
• France recognized British clients as the rulers of key Indian native states and pledged not to send troops to Bengal.

• Maratha annexation of Punjab, Kashmir and surrounding regions.

• British annexation of Bengal

• Sadashiv Bahu led Martha's forces defeated by Ahmad shah abdali

• Treaty of Allahabad

• Treaty of Madras

• Treaty of Salbai

• Treaty of Mangalore

• Treaty of Gajendragad

• Treaty of Seringapatam

• Treaty of Surji-Anjangaon

• Treaty of Sugauli
• Cession of Nepalese territory to the British Empire

• Capture of Nautilus by American forces

• Formal dissolution of the Maratha Empire

• Treaty of Yandabo
• Beginning of British rule in Burma

(1837–1838)

• Part of Great Game

East India Company

Supported by:

 British Empire

Aimaq tribesmen

Maimana Khanate

Andkhui Khanate

Sheberghan Khanate

Sar-i Pul Khanate

Supported by:

 Russian Empire

• Temporary British occupation of Kharg Island. Persian withdrawal from Herat.

• British withdrawal from Afghanistan

 Great Britain

•  East India Company

• Treaty of Nanking

• Dissolution of the Sikh Empire

• Succession of
  Burma

•  East India Company

Afghanistan

• Treaty of Paris (1857)
• Persian withdrawal from Herat

• Suppression of the rebellions
• End of the Mughal Empire and Company rule in India
• Establishment of Crown rule in India (British Raj)

•  United Kingdom
•  India

French Empire

• Treaties of Tientsin
  .

• Bunerwals surrender.
• Malka burned.

• Bhutanese territorial cessions to India.

•  India

• British victory at the Battle of Magdala, Theodore II commits suicide.

•  India

• Treaty of Gandamak, British objectives attained.
• Afghanistan's tribal frontier areas annexed into British India.
• Afghanistan becomes a British Protectorate.

•  India

Egypt
Ethiopia

• Sudan became an Anglo-Egyptian condominium.

•  India

Tewfik Pasha

• Ahmed Orabi exiled, British occupation of Egypt
  .

• The province of Burma became part of India.

• Hassanzai
• Akazai

• Allaiwal village of Pokal occupied and destroyed.

• Tibetan forces expelled from Sikkim.

• The British gained control of Hunza and Nagar.

• Fort of Chitral relieved.

 Britain

•  India

• End of the Sultanate of Zanzibar.
• Zanzibar ceded to the British Empire.

• Rebellion put down.

• Rebellion defeated

• Punitive expedition successful.

• Negotiations for peace were then begun with the Afridis.

•  India

• The rebellion was suppressed.
• Signing of the Boxer Protocol.
• Provisions for foreign troops to be stationed in Beijing.

 

• British Cape Colony
• Natal Colony
• Rhodesia
•  Australia
•  India
•  Canada
•  New Zealand
•  Ceylon

• Treaty of Vereeniging, British sovereignty over The Orange Free State and the Transvaal.

• Treaty enforced, return to status quo.

•  India

• Rebellion suppressed

• Rebellion suppressed

 France

•  Canada
•  Australia
•  New Zealand
•  India
•  South Africa

China
 Greece
Brazil
Kingdom of Nepal

• End of the German, Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires
• Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East
• Transfer of
  regions of the former Ottoman Empire
  to other powers
• Establishment of the League of Nations

• Allied withdrawal from Russia.
• Bolshevik victory over
  White Army
  .

 Greece

• Pontic Rebels

France

• French Armenian Legion
• French West Africa

Armenia
United Kingdom

•  India

• Kuva-yi Inzibatiye

Italy
Georgia

• 
  Kuva-yi Nizamiye

Kuva-yi Milliye

• Armistice of Mudanya.
• Overthrow of the Ottoman sultanate.
• Treaty of Lausanne.
• Withdrawal of Allied forces from occupied lands of Turkey.
• Establishment of the Republic of Turkey.

•  India

• Treaty of Rawalpindi
• Afghan invasion repelled.
• Afghanistan regains control of external affairs.
• Reaffirmation of the Durand Line.

• Suppression of insurrection by independent Wazir tribes.

•  India

Kuwait

• Ikhwan

• Ikhawan retreat.

•  India

• Faisal I of Iraq installed as the King of Iraq.

• Rebellion suppressed.

• Tribal leaders accept terms.

• Jirga and peace.

• Suppression of insurrection by independent Wazir tribes.

• Collapse of the Third Reich
• Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires
• Creation of the United Nations
• Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers
• Beginning of the Cold War

 United Kingdom

•  India
• Sudan
•  Southern Rhodesia
•  Palestine

 Australia
 New Zealand
Egypt
 South Africa
 Free France
Poland
Greece
Czechoslovakia

 Italy

• Libya

Supported by:
 Germany

• Allied Victory

 

•  Australia
•  Gold Coast
•  India
• Kenya
• Nigeria
•  Nyasaland
•  Northern Rhodesia
•  Southern Rhodesia
• 
  Uganda
•  Somaliland
•  South Africa
• Sudan

 Belgium

•  Belgian Congo

 Ethiopia
 Free France

• French Equatorial Africa

 

•  Italian East Africa

Supported by:
 Germany

• Collapse of Italian East Africa

(1941)

 Soviet Union

United Kingdom

•  India

• Abdication of
  Rezā Shāh, Allied
  occupation of Iran.

•  India

• Indian withdrawal after independence in 1947.
• The Netherlands recognises Indonesian independence.

•  India

France
Japan

• Start of the
  Geneva Conference
  of 1954.

 India

• Jammu and Kashmir

• Partitioning of Jammu and Kashmir between India and Pakistan as Jammu and Kashmir and Azad Kashmir.

• Annexation of Junagadh into India

• Annexation of Hyderabad into India

 South Korea

United Nations
 United States
 United Kingdom
 Canada
 Turkey
 Australia
 Philippines
 New Zealand
 Thailand
 Ethiopia
 Greece
 France
 Colombia
 Belgium
 South Africa
 Netherlands
 Luxembourg Supported by:

•  Denmark
•  Italy
•  West Germany
•  India
•  Israel
•  Norway
•  Sweden
•  Taiwan
•  Japan
• Pakistan
•  Cuba
•  El Salvador
• Spain

 North Korea

 China
 Soviet Union Supported by:

•  Bulgaria
• Czechoslovakia
• East Germany
•  Hungary
•  Poland
•  
  Romania
•  Mongolia

• Formation of the DMZ

• Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli into India

Republic of the Congo

Supported by:
 Soviet Union (1960)
ONUC^[b]

•  India

 Katanga
 South Kasai
Supported by:
 Belgium^[c]

1960–62:
Stanleyville government
Supported by:
 Soviet Union

• Debellation of the State of Katanga

• Annexation of Goa, Daman and Diu into India

 India

 Bhutan

 Bangladesh

 Myanmar (joined in 2018)

BLTF
HuM

NDFB

NSCN
PLA
ULFA
UNLF
and others...

• Ongoing low-level insurgency
• Re-annexation of those areas of Mizoram, Tripura and Meghalaya held by militants.
• Bhutanese victory in Operation All Clear
• Introduction of
  AFSPA in seven north-eastern states, later repealed in Tripura^[17] and Meghalaya.^[18]

• United Nations mandated ceasefire
• India had an upper hand in the war^[19]
• No permanent territorial changes (see Tashkent Declaration)

• Indian victory in
  Operation Steeplechase
• Quelling of the insurgency on a large scale via Operation Green Hunt

• Chinese withdrawal from the Kingdom of Sikkim

 India

Supported by:
 Soviet Union^[21][22]

 Pakistan

Supported by:
 United States^[23][24]
 United Kingdom^[25]
 China^[25]
 Iran^[26][27]
 Ceylon^{[28][29][30][31]}
 Saudi Arabia^[32]

• Pakistani surrender
  in East Pakistan
• Independence of Bangladesh

• United Front (since May 15)
  • SLFP
  • CCP (Pro-Soviet)
  • LSSP

Australia
Egypt
India
Pakistan
Singapore
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
United States
Yugoslavia
China

Supported by:
 

ASBPI
CCP (Maoist)

• Rebel forces surrender
• Ceylonese government reestablishes control over entire island

• Annexation of the Siachen Glacier into India following Operation Meghdoot
• India captures Quaid Post / Bana Top during Operation Rajiv
• Ceasefire since 2003

 India

Supported by:
 United Kingdom

 Soviet Union

• Indian forces suffer high casualties

 

Supported by:
 United Kingdom

 Soviet Union

Supported by:
 Pakistan

• Militancy defeated

• Aversion of the coup
• Resignation of Berlouis

 United States

 United Kingdom

Military support:

•  Japan
•  South Korea
•  France
•  Israel
•  South Africa
•  Pakistan
•  Egypt

Supported by:

•  Soviet Union
•  North Korea
•  Cuba
• ASBPI
• PLOTE (until 1988)
• SLFP

• Emergency conditions in South-western and Central provinces of Sri Lanka lifted
• Insurgency declined following the fall of the
  Eastern bloc