THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1550–1614

Kingdom of Mewar (Udaipur)

Mewar was the one major Rajput kingdom that refused Mughal suzerainty. Akbar took Chittor in 1568, and Pratap fought at Haldighati (1576) and later won back most of the hill country; Amar Singh I submitted by treaty in 1615.

See Kingdom of Mewar (Udaipur) on the map in 1550

On the map
1550–1614
Capital
Chittor; Udaipur (founded 1559, capital after 1568)

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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