THE WORLD ATLAS

Realm · approximate borders · 1572–1614

Vijayanagara Empire (Aravidu dynasty, Penukonda and Chandragiri)

After Talikota (1565) and the sack of Hampi, the Aravidu kings ruled from Penukonda and then Chandragiri. They still held Anantapur, Chittoor, Kolar and the Vellore country and claimed overlordship of the Nayaks of Madurai, Thanjavur and Gingee and of Mysore.

The northern and eastern edges of their lands against Golconda and Bijapur moved often.

See Vijayanagara Empire (Aravidu dynasty, Penukonda and Chandragiri) on the map in 1572

On the map
1572–1614
Capital
Penukonda; Chandragiri from 1592

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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