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Successor states of Vijayanagara

Type Event Region India Time 1565–1570

After the Battle of Talikota in 1565 the Vijayanagara Empire's central government collapsed, and in the later 1560s South India fell into fragmentati…

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  1. 1565Talikota · KarnatakaThe Vijayanagara Empire and the Deccan sultan alliance fought a decisive battle at Talikota; the imperial army was catastrophically defeated, the monarch Ali Rama Raya was killed, the capital Vijayanagara was sacked, central authority collapsed, and local military governors and Nayakas carved out their own domains, leaving the empire a shell.
  2. 1565–1567South India · South IndiaFrontier Nayakas of the former empire—such as the chiefs of Tanjavur, Madurai, Chittor, and Mysore—successively declared autonomy in the mid-to-late 1560s, controlling local taxes and armies. The states formed marriage alliances but also fought over territory; the Deccan sultanates also invaded southward but failed to restore unified order.
  3. 1567–1570Penukonda · Andhra PradeshTirumala Raya founded the Aravidu Dynasty, basing itself at Penukonda to continue the legal lineage of the "Vijayanagara Empire" alongside the Nayaka states. By around 1570 South India had taken on a multi-centered political pattern, with the old imperial territory split among several competing local regimes.

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