The Hoysala Kingdom in the 1320s and Vijayanagara's prehistory

Timeline

1. 1320–1323Deccan, South India · KarnatakaIn the early 1320s the Hoysala kingdom faced the dual threat of the Tughlaq dynasty's southern campaigns from North India and the eastward advance of the Madurai Sultanate; Ballala III organized defenses but his strategic position grew steadily worse.
2. 1324–1329Hoysala core territories · KarnatakaBy the end of the 1320s, the Hoysalas' effective rule had contracted further to the Karnataka heartland, and local warrior and administrative elites sought new centers of power amid the turmoil, laying the social groundwork for the later rise of the Vijayanagara Empire.