THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1615–1646

Vijayanagara Empire (Aravidu dynasty, Chandragiri and Vellore)

The civil war after Venkatapati Raya's death (Battle of Toppur, 1616), followed by Golconda's and Bijapur's advance into the Carnatic, reduced the empire to the Chandragiri–Vellore country. Vellore fell around 1646, which is taken as the empire's end (1336–1646); Sriranga III lived on in exile until 1678.

See Vijayanagara Empire (Aravidu dynasty, Chandragiri and Vellore) on the map in 1615

On the map
1615–1646
Capital
Chandragiri; Vellore

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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