Battle of Madarpur

Battle of Madarpur
Date	1528
Location	Kanpur, India
Result	Babur's victory over Kanpur and Vijaypur Sikri state and end of Sakarwar Dynasty
Commanders and leaders
Maharaja Dham Dev Singh, Maharaja Kam Dev Misir	Mir Baqi, Army General of Mughal emperor Babur

As per popular belief, The Battle of Madarpur was a battle fought between a small army of Bhumihar brothers named as Maharaja Kam Dev Misr, Maharaja Dham Dev Misr and Maharja Vikram Pratap Dev Singh and the Mughal commander Mir Baqi in 1528 AD The Mughals were led by Babur. The zamindars, of Bhardwaj gotra, were from Madarpur, a place in present-day Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh. The zamindars were defeated and massacred; the survivors migrated to other places in present-day Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.^[1]

References[]

^ Ansari, Saiyad Hasan (1986). "Evolution and Spatial Organization of Clan settlements in middle ganga valley".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

Acharya Hazari Prasad Dwivedi Rachnawali, Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.
Bibha Jha's Ph.D thesis Bhumihar Brahmins: A Sociological Study submitted to the Patna University.
People of India Uttar Pradesh Volume XLII Part Two edited by A Hasan & J C Das pages 718 to 724 Manohar Publications.

[1] Ansari, Saiyad Hasan (1986). "Evolution and Spatial Organization of Clan settlements in middle ganga valley".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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