Nayaka dynasties emerged during the Kakatiya dynasty and the Vijayanagara Empire period. The Nayakas were originally military governors under the Vijayanagara Empire. After the battle of Talikota, several of them declared themselves independent.[1][2][3]
Many of them were balijas and had a common descent from the vasudeva, father of krishna (khāṃḍalavaṃśa lineage of chandravanshi rajputs). They are believed to be veerashaiva in faith. [4] [5] [6] [7]
The Nayaka kingdoms included the following:
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.... in the seventeenth century, when warriors/traders from the Balija caste acquired kingship of the southern kingdoms of Madurai and Tanjavur.
..... in the Tamil country, where Telugu Balija families had established local Nāyaka states (in Senji, Tanjavur, Madurai, and elsewhere) in the course of the sixteenth century.
The successors of the Vijayanagar empire, the Nayaks of Madura and Tanjore, were Balija Naidus
Originally part of the great Telugu migrations southward into the Tamil country in the 15th and 16th centuries, the Balija merchant- warriors reveal the rise of hitherto marginal, and only recently politicized.. These mobile, aggressive, land-hungry, Telugu-speaking warriors....helped to build the Nāyaka state-system and to impregnate it with their particular cultural vision; strong surviving traditions; supported by contemporary evidence, assert Balija origins and / or marital connections for the major Nāyaka dynasties in the Tamil country quite apart from the well-known Balija role in restructuring the revenue systems of Nāyaka Tanjavur and Madurai
The Nayaks of Belur became prominent during the period of the third and fourth dynasties of Vijayanagar
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