21 December in Hindu history
21 December 181721–22 December 184521 December 1909
Battle of Mahidpur breaks the Holkars
The Company’s army under Thomas Hislop defeats the young Malhar Rao Holkar II on the Kshipra. The Treaty of Mandsaur follows in January.
Battle of Ferozeshah
At Ferozeshah the Company attacked the Khalsa’s entrenched camp and came close to losing the war in a single night. It was saved less by its own arms than by the Sikh commanders’ refusal to finish the fight.
Collector Jackson shot at Nashik
Anant Kanhere shoots A. M. T. Jackson in the Vijayanand theatre, in revenge for the transportation of Babarao Savarkar. Kanhere is hanged in 1910.