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{{Short description|Military conflict in Bihar}}
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|conflict= Jaunpur-Bhojpur War
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|date= 1389 – 1489
|place= [[Bhojpuri region]]
|result= Ujjainiya Victory <ref name= "Prasad1987" /> 
* Initially Ujjainiyas were victorious but then defeated and retreated into the forest and lead a guerilla warfare resistance.
* The Sultanate was eventually expelled from Bhojpur following continued resistance
|combatant1= [[Jaunpur Sultanate]]
|combatant2= [[Ujjainiya]]s of Bhojpur
|commander1= Malik Sarwar Mahmud Shah Sharqi Jamal Khan
|commander2= Raja Harraj Santan Singh Raja Onkar Deva
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The '''Jaunpur-Bhojpur war''' (also known as the '''Jaunpur-Ujjainiya war'''), refers to the conflict between the [[Jaunpur Sultanate]] and the [[Ujjainiya]] [[Rajput]] chiefs of the [[Bhojpuri region|Bhojpur]] region of [[Bihar]].<ref>{{cite journal | title=The Relation of Bhojpur and Jaunpur (From 1389 A.D. to 1519 A.D | author= Md. Iftekhar Alam | journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress |volume = 44| year=1983 | pages= 213|jstor = 44139839}}</ref>

{{Jaunpur Sultanate}}

==Background==
According to the seventeenth-century ''khyat'' which contains the history of the Ujjainiyas, noted that in 1389, the sultan of Jaunpur crossed the [[Karmanasa River]] and halted in [[Buxar]] which is a holy city in [[Hinduism]] and received a lot of pilgrims. His main motivation for advancing to this position was that he coveted control of the ferry of [[Chausa]].<ref name="AlamSubrahmanyam1998">{{cite book|author1=Muzaffar Alam|author2=Sanjay Subrahmanyam|title=The Mug̲h̲al State, 1526-1750|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.118059/page/n109/mode/2up/search/jaunpur|year=1998|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-563905-6|pages=104–106}}</ref>
Upon their arrival, they noticed [[Brahmin]]s performing prayers and rituals. They proceeded to disturb and interfere with the rituals which drew the attention of the Ujjainiyas. The Ujjainiyas were initially successful in driving the Jaunpur Sultanate out of the region however they later returned plundered the city, destroying the temples in the process.<ref name="Kolff2002">{{cite book|author=Dirk H. A. Kolff |author-link=Dirk H. A. Kolff |title=Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market of Hindustan, 1450-1850|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SrdiVPsFRYIC&pg=PA60|date=8 August 2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-52305-9|pages=60–62}}</ref> The Ujjainiyas were then forced to flee into the forests.

==Guerilla resistance==
After their defeat, the Ujjainiyas retreated into the hills and forests and continued to harass the forces of the Jaunpur Sultanate. After the death of Sultan Malik Sarwar in 1399, many Ujjainiyas felt it safe to return from living in the forest. However, for certain periods throughout the 1400s, many Ujjainiyas had to return to living in the forests.<ref name="Prasad1987">{{cite book|author=Rajiva Nain Prasad|title=History of Bhojpur, 1320-1860 A.D.|year=1987|publisher=Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute}}</ref> By the latter half of the 1400s, many Ujjaniyas were paying tribute to the Jaunpur Sultan as the Ujjainiya chief at the time, Durlabh Deva had accepted their suzerainty. This continued until the Jaunpur Sultanate was eventually absorbed into the [[Lodi dynasty]].<ref name="Kolff2002"/>

==See also==
*[[Bengal Sultanate-Jaunpur Sultanate War]]

==References==
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[[Category:History of Bihar]]
[[Category:Military history of India]]
[[Category:Battles involving the Rajputs]]
[[Category:Jaunpur Sultanate]]

Jaunpur-Bhojpur War - Revision history

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