Realm · approximate borders · 1550–1835
Jaintia Kingdom
The Syiem Sutnga rajas of Jaintia held the Jaintia hills and the plains below them at Jaintiapur (Sylhet). The Company annexed the plains and then the hills in 1835.
See Jaintia Kingdom on the map in 1550
- On the map
- 1550–1835
- Capital
- Jaintiapur (winter); Nartiang (summer)
Rulers named in the sources
- Dhan Manik c. 1597–1612
- Ram Singh II 1790–1832
- Rajendra Singh 1832–1835
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.
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)