Keladi Kingdom

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After the fall of the Vijayanagara Empire, the Nayakas of Keladi gained independence and ruled significant parts of the Malnad region of the Western Ghats in present-day Karnataka.

Establishment

January 1500: After the fall of the Vijayanagara Empire in 1565, the Keladi Kingdom gained independence and ruled significant parts of Malnad region of the Western Ghats in present-day Karnataka.

Chronology

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1. Events

January 1519: By 1518 the Bijapur Sultanate controlled the western area of the Deccan region of Southern India.

January 1566: The kings who followed ruled as vassals of the Vijayanagara empire until the decline of the latter in 1565. By this time, the kingdom had expanded to thirty-three villages protected by a force of 300 soldiers. King Timmaraja II conquered some surrounding chiefdoms.

January 1601: Foundation of the Haleri Kingdom.

January 1647: Nayakas of Chitradurga (1588-1779 CE) ruled parts of eastern Karnataka during the post-Vijayanagara period. During the rule of Hoysala Empire and Vijayanagara Empire, they served as a feudatory chiefdom.

January 1668: Kundapur was established.

January 1673: Savanur State was founded in 1672 when Abdul Karim Khan, an Afghan of the Miyana tribe from Kabul, in the service of the sultanat of Bijapur, was granted the jagir of Sarkar Bankapur near Bijapur in 1672.

January 1683: The Kundapur factory traded in rice and pepper and was closed in 1682 after problems with local merchants.

January 1701: The invasion of the Keladi Nayakas of Malnad was also dealt successfully.