THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1565–1762

Keladi Nayakas (Ikkeri / Bednur)

The Keladi Nayakas were Vijayanagara governors who became independent after Talikota (1565). They held Shimoga and Chikmagalur on the plateau and the Canara coast from about Kasaragod to Honnavar.

Shivappa Nayaka drove the Portuguese from the Canara ports. Hyder Ali took Bidanur in 1763.

See Keladi Nayakas (Ikkeri / Bednur) on the map in 1565

On the map
1565–1762
Capital
Ikkeri; Bidanur (Bednur) from 1639

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.

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