The Company soon expanded Expansion its territories around its bases in Bombay and Madras ; later , the Anglo-Mysore Wars ( 1766–1799 ) and the Anglo-Maratha Wars ( 1772–1818 ) led to Causation control Control of even more of India .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Mahidpur was fought Hostile_encounter during the Third Anglo-Maratha War Military_operation between the Holkar faction of the Maratha Confederacy and the British East India Company at Mahidpur , a town in the Malwa region , on 21 December 1817 .

It was part of the Second Anglo-Maratha War Military_operation .