Raghoji I Bhonsle: Difference between revisions

Soon afterwards took place the ''Battle of Damalcherry'' in 1740, which was a major confrontation between the [[Mughal Empire]]'s [[Nawab of the Carnatic]], [[Dost Ali Khan]] and his Maratha opponent Raghoji I Bhonsale.<ref name="Jeremy Black">{{cite book|author=Jeremy Black|title=War in the Eighteenth-Century World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcEcBQAAQBAJ&dq=battle+of+Damalcherry&pg=PA60|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year= 2012|isbn=9780230370005|pages=280}}</ref> The battle was a victory for the Marathas in which Dost Ali Khan, his son and a number of prominent persons of Arcot were killed and resulted in three years of Maratha rule in the Carnatic.<ref name="Saswadkar">{{cite journal |last= Saswadkar|first= P. L.|title=Prohibition under the Peshwas in the latter half of the eighteenth century|journal= Proceedings of the Indian History Congress|year= 1965|volume= 27|pages= 326–328|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44140671|publisher=JSOR|jstor= 44140671|access-date=13 December 2020}}</ref><ref name="TN Gov">{{cite web |title=Brief history of Arcot|url=https://www.tnurbantree.tn.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/sites/113/2020/08/briefhistory-PB-Arcot.pdf|publisher=Tamil Nadu Govt|access-date=13 December 2020}}</ref>