madurai nayak dynasty

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Madurai Nayak dynasty

Madurai Nayak dynasty (Mughal)

Establishment

January 1647: Initially the Madurai Nayak were governors of the Vijayanagara Empire but became independent after the fall of this kingdom.

Chronology

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1. Conquests of Aurangzeb

Expansion during the rule of Aurangzeb in the Mughal Empire.

January 1690: With the Mughal juggernaut approaching southern India, Rani Mangammal recognised it would be better to pay tribute to the Mughals than have them invade. She supporter their capture of Jinji from Rajaram, who would otherwise have attacked Madurai and Thanjavur, and ruled the fort as a Mughal vassal.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1651: Narasaraja Wodeyar acquired Satyamangalam (in modern northern Coimbatore district) […] His successor Dodda Devaraja Wodeyar expanded further to capture western Tamil regions of Erode and Dharmapuri.

January 1674: The Thanjavur Nayak kingdom was brought to an abrupt end by Chokkanatha Nayak of Madurai.

January 1678: During his reign, Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha Empire, invaded Gingee and Thanjavur in 1676-1677.

January 1681: The Kingdom of Pudukkottai was founded in about 1680 as a feudatory of Ramnad and grew with subsequent additions from Tanjore, Sivaganga and Ramnad.

January 1701: During the reign of Chikka Devaraja (r. 1672-1704), the Kingdom of Mysore grew to include Salem and Bangalore to the east, Hassan to the west, Chikkamagaluru and Tumkur to the north and the rest of Coimbatore to the south.

January 1720: In 1719, an army of Marathas marched to Delhi after defeating Sayyid Hussain Ali, the Mughal governor of Deccan, and deposed the Mughal emperor. The Mughal Emperors became puppets in the hands of their Maratha overlords from this point on.