CASUALTY RECORD // December 21, 1817
Battle of Mahidpur
Estimated casualties — killed, wounded, captured, and missing — by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Casualties by side
1 sides catalogued · combined 3,000 estimated
Indore State
3,000
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The Battle of Mahidpur was a major engagement of the Third Anglo-Maratha War, pitting the Indore State of the Maratha Confederacy against the British East India Company in the Malwa region. Indore State sustained casualties of approximately 3,000, a loss that effectively ended its capacity to continue organized resistance. The engagement was part of the broader British campaign to suppress the Maratha Confederacy, and the defeat of Indore—one of its constituent powers—contributed to the dismantling of Maratha political and military independence across central India.
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