Chanderi District was a former administrative district of British India. It covered most of present-day Lalitpur District of Uttar Pradesh state and the eastern portion of Ashoknagar District of Madhya Pradesh state. Before 1811, the district was the state of Chanderi, and ruled by Bundela Rajputs descended from the kings of Orchha. Chanderi was annexed in 1811 by Maharaja Daulatrao Sindhia of neighboring Gwalior in 1811. In 1844, the district was ceded to the British by Maharaja Jayajirao Sindhia of Gwalior, and the revenue from the district used to maintain a British force in Gwalior. Lalitpur was the administrative headquarters of the district. The district was captured by rebels during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and was not recaptured by the British until late in 1858. The portion of the district west of the Betwa River, including the town of Chanderi, was returned to Gwalior in 1861, and the portion east of the Betwa was renamed Lalitpur District.
Battle of Ghaghra (1/2)
The Battle of Ghaghra, fought in 1529 and was the last major battle for the conquest of India by the Mughal Empire [6] . It followed the first Battle of Panipat in 1526 and the Battle of Khanwa in 1527 [7] . The forces of now Emperor Zahir ud-Din Muhammad Babur of the emerging Mughal Empire were joined by Indian allies in battle against the Eastern Afghan Confederates under Sultan Mahmud Lodhi and Kingdom of Bengal under King Nusrat Shah [8] .
Contents:
1. Background
2. Battle
3. Aftermath
4. References
5. Notes

1. Background
Sultan Mahmud Lodhi, who aspired to the throne of Delhi and who had been declared the rightful heir to the Delhi Sultanate by the Western Afghan Confederates and aided by the Rajput Confederates, was put to flight after the defeat at the Battle of Khanwa in 1527 [9] . He took refuge in Gujarat [10] . After trying to get in touch with his kinsmen in the east he managed to join them. He at the head of the Eastern Afghan Confederates took Bihar [11] .
On the death of Sultan Muhammad Shah Lohani the Pathan king of Bihar of the new dynasty, an event which occurred some time after Babur's expedition to Chanderi [12] , he was succeeded by his son Sultan Jalal ud-Din Lohani a minor, that the chief management of affairs at least in Bihar then devolved on that prince's mother Dudu and on Farid Khan better known as Sher Shah Suri [13] who had already risen into distinction; that the country was distracted by the rival claims of the Lohani nobles [14] related to the young King, of Baban [15] and Bayezid [16] whose influence was very extensive, of Sher Shah Suri [17] and of other chiefs, and that these factions added to the effects of the discomfiture which the Pathans received in the preceding campaigns from the armies of Babur at length induced the young prince to take refuge in the territories of the King of Bengal [18] .
In this state of things the Afghans [disambiguation needed] of Jaunpur [disambiguation needed] [19] and indeed of India in general, in order to avert the total ruin of their affairs and to unite all interests as far as was practicable resolved to call in Sultan Mahmud Lodhi who had already with the support of Rana Sanga made an effort to mount the throne of Delhi [20] . When defeated in that attempt he had retired to Gujarat whence he afterwards proceeded to Pana in Bundelkhand where he remained waiting for some favorable change of affairs and now accepted the invitation to ascend the throne of Bihar and Jaunpur [disambiguation needed] [21] . He was speedily joined by his countrymen from every quarter and seems to have taken possession of nearly the whole of Bihar without opposition [22] . What excites most surprise is the secrecy and success with which intrigues and movements so extensive appear to have been conducted a fact to be explained perhaps by the deep interest which every Pathan felt in the national success and the fidelity which tribesmen show to their chiefs and to each other [23] .

The very day after receiving this news Babur returned to Agra where he intimated to his council his resolution immediately to assume the command of the eastern army and accordingly taking with him such troops as were at hand he set out on February 2, 1529 and crossing the Doab reached the right bank of the Ganges at Dakdaki on February 27,1529 [24] . Here he was met by his son Humayun, General Askari and several generals who came from the other side. He arranged with them that while his army marched down the right bank of the river theirs should march down the left and should always encamp over against his [25] .

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