Kakatiya dynasty
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Early Kakatiya rulers served as feudatories to Rashtrakutas and Western Chalukyas for more than two centuries. They assumed sovereignty under Prataparudra I in 1163 CE. The dynasty ruled over the eastern Deccan region in India.
Establishment
January 1164: Early Kakatiya rulers served as feudatories to Rashtrakutas and Western Chalukyas for more than two centuries. They assumed sovereignty under Prataparudra I in 1163 CE by suppressing other Chalukya subordinates in the Telangana region.
Chronology
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Expansion during the rule of Simhana II of the Seuna.
January 1207: A 1206 inscription shows that by that year the Yadavas had conquered a part of the present-day Bijapur district.
January 1221: By 1220, Seuna Dynasty ruler Simhana had completed his conquest of the area to the north of the Tungabhadra River.
January 1241: Ganapati Deva significantly expanded Kakatiya lands during the 1230s when he launched a series of attacks outside the dynasty's traditional Telangana region and thus brought under Kakatiya control the Telugu-speaking lowland delta areas around the Godavari and Krishna rivers.
January 1251: Jatavarman Sundara I ascended the Pandya throne in 1251 CE. He led his army to the Chola country (even as far as Nellore), to Sri Lanka and to south Kerala.
January 1269: Establishment of the Kakatiya Empire.
January 1295: The founder of the Kampili Kingdom was a Hoysala commander, Singeya Nayaka-III (1280-1300 AD), who declared independence after the Muslim forces of the Delhi Sultanate defeated and captured the territories of the Seuna Yadavas of Devagiri in 1294 CE.
January 1301: During the 14th century, the Sambuvarayas, a dynasty in the Tondaimandalam region, gained power as the Telugu Cholas, Hoysala, and Pandya kingdoms declined. They ruled independently in this period.
March 1310: Kakatiya ruler Prataparudra was forced to make various symbolic acts of obeisance designed to demonstrate his new position as a subordinate to Delhi but, as was Alauddin's plan, he was not removed as ruler of the area but rather forced thereafter to pay annual tribute to Delhi.
January 1318: In 1318, the Kakatiya failed to provide the annual tribute to Delhi.
January 1319: Kakatiya ruler Prataparudra had to submit once more to Delhi, with his obeisance on this occasion being arranged by the sultanate to include a very public display whereby he bowed towards Delhi from the ramparts of Orugallu.
January 1321: Prataparudra again asserted his independence in 1320.
January 1322: Delhi prince Ulugh Khan plundered Arangal and Tilang.
February 1322: Delhi forces leave Arangal and Tilang.
Disestablishment
January 1324: Another attack by Delhi Sultan Ulugh Khan in 1323 saw stiff resistance by the Kakatiyan army, but they were finally defeated. The Kakatiya dynasty was annexed.