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
- Akhai Singh 1722–1762
- Mulraj II 1762–1820
- Gaj Singh 1820–1846
- Ranjit Singh 1846–1864
- Rawal Har Raj c. 1561–1577
- Rawal Jaisal 1156–1168
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.
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)
- Wikipedia: Kuru Kingdom
- Wikipedia: Panchala
- Wikipedia: Kāśī (kingdom)
- Wikipedia: Kosala
- Wikipedia: Magadha
- Wikipedia: Anga
- Wikipedia: Vatsa
- Wikipedia: Surasena
- Wikipedia: Matsya (kingdom)
- Wikipedia: Vajjika League
- Wikipedia: Pundravardhana
- Wikipedia: Anuradhapura kingdom
- Wikipedia: Pandukabhaya
- Wikipedia: Gujarat Sultanate
- Wikipedia: Farooqui dynasty (Khandesh)
- Wikipedia: Malwa Sultanate
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Marwar
- Wikipedia: Kingdom of Jaisalmer
- Wikipedia: Bikaner State
- Wikipedia: Sirohi State
- Wikipedia: Garhwal kingdom
- J. E. Schwartzberg (ed.), A Historical Atlas of South Asia, plates III and V.3–V.4 (DSAL), for checking extents
- 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