Sandur State

This article is about the specific polity Sandur State and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Was a polity located in the modern-day Indian State of Karnataka.

Establishment

January 1714: The Sandur state was founded around 1713 by a Maratha Shrimant Sidalji Ghorpade, who died in 1715 without any heir. From 1731 until the accession to India, the Sandur state was ruled by Marathi Brahmin royals.

Chronology

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1. Events

January 1767: By 1761, the Maratha menace had diminished and by 1763, Mysore ruler Haider Ali had captured the Keladi kingdom, defeated the rulers of Bilgi, Bednur and Gutti, invaded the Malabar in the south and conquered the Zamorin's capital Calicut with ease in 1766 and extended the Mysore kingdom up to Dharwad and Bellary in the north.

January 1777: In 1776, the territory of Sandur State was annexed to the Kingdom of Mysore under the rule of Hyder Ali and later his son Tipu Sultan. This marked a significant shift in power dynamics in the region during that period.

January 1791: In 1776 - 1790, Sandur State's territory was annexed to the Mysore Kingdom under the rule of Hyder Ali and later his son Tipu Sultan. Sandur State regained its independence in 1790.

January 1818: On 1 July 1818 Sandur formally became a British protectorate.