THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1156–1857

Kingdom of Jaisalmer

The Rajput states had been Mughal vassal kingdoms. Maratha (Scindia, Holkar) armies took tribute and districts until the treaties of 1817–18 put them under British protection.

Their borders changed little after 1818; before 1818 parts were held by Maratha chiefs (Ajmer by Scindia, 1756–1818). Jaisalmer's desert border with Sindh and Bahawalpur was unsurveyed before the 1840s. The Bhati kingdom of the Thar. Rawal Har Raj accepted Akbar's overlordship in 1570; from then on Jaisalmer was a tributary kingdom with its own rulers (Wikipedia 'Kingdom of Jaisalmer'). Rawal Jaisal moved the Bhati capital from Lodhruva to Jaisalmer in 1156 (Wikipedia 'Kingdom of Jaisalmer'); the desert kingdom was sacked by Delhi's forces c. 1299 but survived.

See Kingdom of Jaisalmer on the map in 1752

On the map
1156–1857
Capital
Jaisalmer

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.

More South Asian kingdoms, 1200 BCE–1578

The late Vedic kingdoms of the Kurus, Panchalas and Kashi and the first Mahajanapadas before 600 BCE; the first century of the Anuradhapura kingdom; the last decades of the Gujarat, Khandesh and Malwa sultanates and of the Rajput kingdoms of Marwar, Jaisalmer and Bikaner; and the Deora kingdom of Sirohi and the Garhwal kingdom.

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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