List of wars involving India

This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving former kingdoms and states in the Indian subcontinent and the modern day Republic of India as well as its predecessors.

(861–870) (1175–1206) (1221–1327) (1243–1256) (1318–1323) (1359) (1500–1513) Venice Mamluks (1505–1517) Kingdom of Calicut Bijapur Sultanate Gujarat Sultanate Supported by: Republic of Venice Ottoman Empire (1508) (1508–1573) Supported by: Kingdom of Calicut Mamluk Sultanate (until 1517) Ottoman Empire (since 1517) (1510) (1513) (1517) (1518–1658) Kingdom of Kandy Principality of Raigama Kingdom of Jaffna Supported by: Zamorin of Calicut Kingdom of Tanjore Vanni chieftains Dutch East India Company (From 1638) Kingdom of Kotte (1526–1571) (1526–1530) Supported by: Portuguese Empire (1570 – 1574) Sultanate of Ahmadnagar Zamorin of Calicut Sultanate of Aceh Co-belligerents: Princely states of the Kanara coast Kalinyamat Sultanate Sultanate of Ternate Sultanate of Tidore Sultanate of Golkonda Mappila Muslims (1576–1605) (1586) (1599–1600) Kingdom of Calicut (1601–1661) Supported by: Supported by: (1612) (1624–1636)[5][6][7] Dutch East India Company (1631–32) (1632) (1640) (1642–1698)[8] (1666–1758) United Kingdom Portuguese Empire[10][a] (1683–1684) Portuguese Empire Akal Sena (Sikhs) Kangra State Bijarwal State (1692–1693) Portuguese Empire Portuguese Empire (1725–1726)[11] Portuguese Empire (1729–1732) Portuguese Empire Supported by: Supported by: Rajahnate of Soonda Kingdom of Sawantwadi (1744–1748) Nizam of Hyderabad (1749–1754) Mughal Empire Kingdom of Mysore Nawab of Arcot (Chanda Sahib) Hyderabad State (Muzaffar Jang Hidayat) Maratha Empire Nawab of Arcot (Wallajah) Hyderabad State (Nasir Jung) (1752) Austria Russia (until 1762) Spanish Empire (from 1761) Sweden (1757–62) Saxony Mughal Empire (from 1757) Great Britain Hanover Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Iroquois Confederacy Portugal (from 1761) Hesse-Kassel Schaumburg-Lippe (1837–1838) East India Company Supported by: British Empire Aimaq tribesmen Maimana Khanate Andkhui Khanate Sheberghan Khanate Sar-i Pul Khanate Bukhara Emirate Khiva Khanate[19] Supported by: Russian Empire Principality of Qandahar Afghanistan Following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the rule of the British East India company came to end and the British crown began to rule over India directly as per the Government of India Act 1858.

French Empire Egypt Ethiopia Tewfik Pasha France United States Germany Austria-Hungary Italy Russia Italy United States Serbia Montenegro Belgium Japan Romania Portugal Hejaz China Greece Brazil Kingdom of Nepal Japan Czechoslovakia Greece Poland United States France Romania Serbia Italy China France Armenia United Kingdom Istanbul Government Italy Georgia Kuva-yi Milliye Kuwait Australia New Zealand Egypt South Africa Free France Poland Greece Czechoslovakia Supported by: Germany Belgium Ethiopia Free France Supported by: Germany (1941) United Kingdom France Japan In 1947, the British Indian Empire split into the Dominion of Pakistan and the Dominion of India.

United Nations United States United Kingdom Canada Turkey Australia Philippines New Zealand Thailand Ethiopia Greece France Colombia Belgium South Africa Netherlands Luxembourg Supported by: North Korea China Soviet Union Supported by: Republic of the Congo Supported by: Soviet Union (1960) ONUC[b] Katanga South Kasai Supported by: Belgium[c] 1960–62: Stanleyville government Supported by: Soviet Union Myanmar (joined in 2018)

and others... Communist Party of India (Maoist) Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Janashakti Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Naxalbari (until 2014) Communist Party of United States of India Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) New Democracy Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) (Mahadev Mukherjee) People's Liberation Army of Manipur Purbo Banglar Communist Party Centre of Indian Communists Tamil Nadu Liberation Army Supported by: Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) New People's Army[24] Supported by: Soviet Union[25][26] Supported by: United States[27][28] United Kingdom[29] China[29] Iran[30][31] Ceylon[32][33][34][35] Saudi Arabia[36] Australia Egypt India Pakistan Singapore Soviet Union United Kingdom United States Yugoslavia China Supported by: North Korea (alleged) ASBPI CCP (Maoist) (alleged) Supported by:  United Kingdom Soviet Union Supported by:  United Kingdom Soviet Union Supported by:  Pakistan Military support: Supported by: Lashkar-e-Taiba Jaish-e-Mohammed Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Al-Badr Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Supported by: Pakistan[37] Taliban[38] al-Qaeda[38] Non-UNMOT: (Part of the Somali Civil War)(1991–) Victory Non-NATO: Victory Stalemate