THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1550–1790

Kingdom of Kumaon (Chand dynasty)

The Chand rajas held Kumaon, from the Kali river to the Garhwal border, and the Tarai below the hills. Gorkha Nepal conquered it in 1790.

The Chands paid occasional tribute to the Mughals but were never under Mughal rule.

See Kingdom of Kumaon (Chand dynasty) on the map in 1550

On the map
1550–1790
Capital
Almora (Champawat earlier)

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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