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Battle of Hasanpur

VictorEmperor Muhammad ShahMuhammad Shah; Muhammad Amin Khan; Haidar Quli Khan
1720vs
Sayyid Abdullah Khan with a rival emperorSayyid Abdullah Khan; Prince Muhammad Ibrahim

After his brother Husain Ali Khan was murdered in October 1720, Sayyid Abdullah Khan set up a new emperor and marched against Muhammad Shah. At Hasanpur he was beaten and taken prisoner.

Date: 13–14 November 1720Where: Hasanpur, near Palwal and Hodal, on the Delhi–Agra roadType: Battle
Photo: Pragya Sharan · CC BY-SA 4.0
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“Battle of Hasanpur.” Hindu History, 2026, https://www.hinduhistory.in/battles/battle-of-hasanpur-1720/. Accessed .

APA

Hindu History. (2026). Battle of Hasanpur. Retrieved , from https://www.hinduhistory.in/battles/battle-of-hasanpur-1720/

Result

Abdullah Khan was defeated and captured; the rule of the Sayyid brothers ended.

01The king-makers fall

The Sayyids had raised Muhammad Shah to the throne in 1719 as a young puppet. In October 1720, while the emperor and Husain Ali Khan were marching south against the Nizam, a group of Turani nobles had Husain Ali stabbed to death near Toda Bhim. Muhammad Shah turned back towards Delhi. Abdullah Khan, in Delhi, proclaimed another prince, Muhammad Ibrahim, as emperor, raised money and troops quickly, and marched out to fight.

02Two days at Hasanpur

The armies met at Hasanpur on 13 November 1720. The emperor’s artillery under Haidar Quli Khan did heavy damage, and many of Abdullah Khan’s hastily raised troops melted away. The fighting went on into the next day. Abdullah Khan, wounded, was captured on his elephant and brought before Muhammad Shah. He was kept a prisoner and died, poisoned it was said, in 1722. Muhammad Shah entered Delhi as emperor in fact, though real power soon passed to new factions.

Why it matters

Hasanpur ended the age of the Sayyid king-makers and opened Muhammad Shah’s long reign, during which the Marathas spread across the north.

Places near the battlefield 8

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Maratha ascendancy and the Sikh empire

Nand Bhavan (Nand Baba Temple), Nandgaon

The house of Nanda Baba on Nandishvar hill, where Krishna is worshipped as a cowherd boy with his foster parents and his brother. With Barsana it makes the pair of villages of Braj’s Lathmar Holi.

Shri Radha Rani (Ladli ji) Temple, BarsanaStanding
The Mughal era and the resistance

Shri Radha Rani (Ladli ji) Temple, Barsana

The temple of Radha on Bhanugarh hill above Barsana, the village of her father Vrishabhanu. It is the centre of Radhashtami and of the Lathmar Holi that draws all Braj each spring.

Radha Raman Temple, VrindavanStanding
The Mughal era and the resistance

Radha Raman Temple, Vrindavan

One of the seven old Goswami temples of Vrindavan, home of the Radha Raman murti that manifested from a shaligram shila for Gopal Bhatta Goswami in 1542. Unlike the other old murtis, it never left Vrindavan.

Radha Madan Mohan Temple, VrindavanStanding
The Mughal era and the resistance

Radha Madan Mohan Temple, Vrindavan

The tall red sandstone temple on the Dwadashaditya mound above the old Kaliya Ghat, the oldest standing temple of Vrindavan’s Goswami age. The original murti, worshipped by Sanatana Goswami, was carried to Rajasthan in the 17th century and is now at Karauli.

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Banke Bihari Temple, Vrindavan

The most visited temple of Vrindavan, home of the murti that appeared to the singer-saint Swami Haridas in Nidhivan. Krishna stands here in the tribhanga pose, bent in three places, and the curtain is drawn every few minutes so that no devotee looks too long.

Prem Mandir, VrindavanStanding
Independent Bharat

Prem Mandir, Vrindavan

The white marble temple of Radha-Krishna and Sita-Rama raised by Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaj on a 55-acre site at the edge of Vrindavan. It opened in February 2012 and is now one of the most visited places in Braj.

Govind Dev Temple, VrindavanRuined
The Mughal era and the resistance

Govind Dev Temple, Vrindavan

The red sandstone temple Raja Man Singh of Amber raised for Govind Dev in 1590, the largest temple north India had seen in centuries. In 1670 the murti was carried away to Kachwaha country ahead of Aurangzeb’s order, and it is worshipped in Jaipur to this day; the building stands without its upper storeys.

Sri Rangji (Ranganatha) Temple, VrindavanStanding
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Sri Rangji (Ranganatha) Temple, Vrindavan

A South Indian temple in the heart of Braj, built in the Dravidian style with a tall gopuram for the Sri Vaishnava worship of Ranganatha. Every spring it holds a Brahmotsava with a great wooden chariot every spring.