23 October in Hindu history
23 October 176423 October 1824October–December 1824
Battle of Buxar
The Company’s army under Hector Munro defeats the combined forces of Mir Qasim, Shuja-ud-Daula of Awadh and the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II. British power in the Gangetic plain is now unchallenged.
Kittur Chennamma defeats the Company
When the Company refuses to recognise her adopted son and moves to seize Kittur, Rani Chennamma’s forces defeat its troops; the Collector Thackeray is killed. A second force takes the fort in December, and she dies a prisoner at Bailhongal in 1829.
Kittur Rebellion
When the Company refused to recognise the son she had adopted, Rani Chennamma of Kittur shut her gates, and her men killed the collector who came to seize the treasury.