Realm · approximate borders · 1440–1563
Garha kingdom (Garha-Mandla)
At its height under Rani Durgavati, the Gond kingdom of Garha held the upper Narmada valley (Jabalpur, Mandla, Narsinghpur, Damoh and Seoni). She died fighting Akbar's general Asaf Khan in 1564.
Gond kingdom of the upper Narmada, founded in the 15th century (Wikipedia 'Garha kingdom', from 1440). Sangram Shah enlarged the kingdom to a traditional 52 forts; Joppen's 1525 map marks Jabalpur and Mandla within Gondwana. Dates of Sangram Shah vary between sources.
See Garha kingdom (Garha-Mandla) on the map in 1550
- On the map
- 1440–1563
- Capital
- Singorgarh; Chauragarh; Garha (Jabalpur); Garha; Singorgarh
Rulers named in the sources
- Dalpat Shah c. 1540s–1550
- Rani Durgavati (regent) 1550–1564
- Vir Narayan 1550–1564
- Yadavaraya (traditional founder) date legendary
- Sangram Shah c. 1491–1543
- Dalpat Shah c. 1543–1550
- Rani Durgavati regent from c. 1550
South Asian kingdoms, 1550–1857
From the fall of Vijayanagara's capital to the Revolt of 1857, beside the Mughal, Maratha, Durrani and British realms and a few successor states, many kingdoms ruled themselves. In the south: Travancore, Cochin, the Zamorin's Calicut, the Keladi Nayakas, the last Aravidu kings of Vijayanagara, the Nayaks of Gingee, and Mysore through the Wodeyar, Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan periods. In the Deccan and centre: the Gond kingdoms of Garha-Mandla, Deogarh and Chanda, Bastar, Ratanpur, Hyderabad after 1799, Nagpur, Satara, and the Holkar, Scindia and Gaekwad states after 1818. In the north: the Rajput kingdoms and Jat Bharatpur after the Mughal collapse, Rohilkhand, the reduced Awadh of 1803–56, Kumaon, Garhwal, Ladakh and Sikkim. In the east: the Ahom, Koch, Kachari, Jaintia, Manipur and Tripura kingdoms. In the west: Kutch and the Khanate of Kalat.
South Asia's regional kingdoms, 1000–1550
Between the Ghaznavid raids and the Mughal conquest, South Asia was shared by dozens of regional states: the Madurai Sultanate in the Tamil country, the sultanates of Gujarat, Malwa and Khandesh, the Reddi and Velama kingdoms of Andhra, the Gajapatis of Odisha, the Rajput kingdoms of Mewar and Marwar, the Ahom, Chutia, Kamata and Tripura kingdoms of the north-east, the successors of the Chera Perumals on the Malabar coast, and the Sinhala kingdoms of Gampola, Kotte and Kandy. Few medieval sources describe frontiers.
Sources
- Imperial Gazetteer Atlas of India (1909/1931), plate 28: India in 1765 and 1805 (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)
- Imperial Gazetteer Atlas of India (1909/1931), plate 29: India in 1837 and 1857 (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)
- Wikipedia: Travancore
- Wikipedia: Venadu kingdom
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Cochin
- Wikipedia: Zamorin
- Wikipedia: Nayakas of Keladi
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Mysore
- Wikipedia: Hyder Ali
- Wikipedia: Tipu Sultan
- Wikipedia: Treaty of Seringapatam
- Wikipedia: Vijayanagara Empire
- Wikipedia: Aravidu dynasty
- Wikipedia: Nayaks of Gingee
- Wikipedia: Hyderabad State
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Nagpur
- Wikipedia: Satara State
- Wikipedia: Indore State
- Wikipedia: Gwalior State
- Wikipedia: Baroda State
- Wikipedia: Cutch State
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Mewar
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Marwar
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Amber
- Wikipedia: Bikaner State
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Jaisalmer
- Wikipedia: Kota State
- Wikipedia: Bundi State
- Wikipedia: Oudh State
- Wikipedia: Rohilkhand
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Kumaon
- Wikipedia: Garhwal kingdom
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Maryul (Ladakh)
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Sikkim
- Wikipedia: Ahom kingdom
- Wikipedia: Koch dynasty
- Wikipedia: Koch Hajo
- Wikipedia: Cooch Behar State
- Wikipedia: Dimasa Kingdom
- Wikipedia: Jaintia Kingdom
- Wikipedia: Manipur (princely state)
- Wikipedia: Twipra Kingdom
- Wikipedia: Khanate of Kalat
- Wikipedia: Garha kingdom
- Wikipedia: Chanda kingdom
- Wikipedia: Bastar State
- Wikipedia: Kalachuris of Ratnapura
- Wikipedia: Bharatpur State
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Kandy (checked: already on the map)
- C. Joppen, Historical Atlas of India (1914), maps 10–14: India in 1022, 1236, 1318, 1398, 1525 (archive.org)
- J. E. Schwartzberg (ed.), A Historical Atlas of South Asia, plates V.2–V.4 and XIV.3 (DSAL)
- Wikipedia: Madurai Sultanate
- Wikipedia: Sambuvarayar
- Wikipedia: Reddi Kingdom
- Wikipedia: Musunuri Nayakas
- Wikipedia: Recherla Nayakas
- Wikipedia: Eastern Ganga dynasty
- Wikipedia: Gajapati Empire
- Wikipedia: Bhoi dynasty
- Wikipedia: Somavamshi dynasty
- Wikipedia: Kalachuris of Tripuri
- Wikipedia: Kalachuris of Ratnapura
- Wikipedia: Garha kingdom
- Wikipedia: Farooqui dynasty
- Wikipedia: Tomaras of Gwalior
- Wikipedia: Malwa Sultanate
- Wikipedia: Paramara dynasty
- Wikipedia: Gujarat Sultanate
- Wikipedia: Vaghela dynasty
- Wikipedia: Chudasama dynasty
- Wikipedia: Champaner
- Wikipedia: Cutch State
- Wikipedia: Guhila dynasty
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Mewar
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Marwar
- Wikipedia: Bikaner State
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Jaisalmer
- Wikipedia: Chahamanas of Jalor
- Wikipedia: Chahamanas of Ranastambhapura
- Wikipedia: Emirate of Multan
- Wikipedia: Soomra dynasty
- Wikipedia: Nasir ad-Din Qabacha
- Wikipedia: Langah Sultanate
- Wikipedia: Arghun dynasty
- Wikipedia: Khasa Kingdom
- Wikipedia: Guge
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Maryul
- Wikipedia: Karnats of Mithila
- Wikipedia: Bengal Sultanate
- Wikipedia: Kamata Kingdom
- Wikipedia: Koch dynasty
- Wikipedia: Ahom kingdom
- Wikipedia: Chutia kingdom
- Wikipedia: Dimasa Kingdom
- Wikipedia: Twipra Kingdom
- Wikipedia: Manipur (princely state)
- Wikipedia: Chera Perumals of Kerala
- Wikipedia: Venadu kingdom
- Wikipedia: Kolathunadu
- Wikipedia: Zamorin
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Cochin
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Gampola
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Kotte
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Kandy
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Sitawaka
- Wikipedia: Bahmani Sultanate
- Wikipedia: Vijayanagara Empire
- Wikipedia: Tomaras of Delhi
- Wikipedia: Chahamanas of Shakambhari
- Wikipedia: Katoch
- Wikipedia: Kangra Fort
- Wikipedia: Katyuri dynasty
- Wikipedia: Thakuri dynasty
- Wikipedia: Chindaka Naga
- Wikipedia: Kachchhapaghata dynasty
- Wikipedia: Chahamanas of Naddula
- Wikipedia: Chandela dynasty