The Battle of Buradi Ghat was fought between an Afghan-Mughal army and a Marathi army in 1760 during Ahmad Shah Abdali's invasion of India.
In 1759, the Mughal commander-in-chief Najib ad-Dawlah persuaded Emperor Alamgir II to rebel against the Maratha Confederacy after convincing him that the Marathis were plotting to help Imad-ul-Mulk usurp the Mughal throne. Najib ad-Dawlah formed an alliance with Ahmad Shah Abdali of Afghanistan and persuaded him to invade India; he would make Abdali ruler of Delhi in exchange for his help in overthrowing the Marathi yoke.
Unaware of this development, Marathi finance minister Sadashivrao Bhau dispatched the veteran general Dattaji Rao Shinde to collect Najib ad-Dawlah's taxes, which he had failed to pay for several years. In March 1759, Shinde reached Machhiwara with his 40,000-strong cavalry army, and only to find himself attacked by an Afghan-Mughal army. The Afghans overran Attock and Peshawar, captured Lahore, and attacked Dattaji's party of 2,500 men outside Delhi before the main battle. Abdali joined forces with Najib ad-Dawlah, and Dattajirao was forced to retreat to the Delhi fort. The 120,000-strong Afghan-Mughal army attacked Dattajirao's 60,000-strong army at Buradi Ghat on the banks of the river Yamuna near Delhi on 10 January 1760, and Dattaji's outnumbered army was totally defeated. A wounded Dattajirao swore to Najib ad-Dawlah that he would continue fighting if Najib let him go, resulting in Najib having Mian Qutub Shah behead the Marathi general.