THE WORLD ATLAS

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

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.

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