THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1766–1775

Mysore under Hyder Ali (with Malabar)

Hyder conquered Malabar in 1766 (Calicut, the Kolathiri lands, Palakkad), Coorg in 1773, and held Coimbatore, Dindigul and Baramahal. Cochin paid tribute; Travancore stayed independent.

Chitradurga was taken in 1779.

See Mysore under Hyder Ali (with Malabar) on the map in 1766

On the map
1766–1775
Capital
Srirangapatna

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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