Madurai Nayak dynasty
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The Madurai Nayaks were a Telugu Balija Naidu dynasty who ruled most of modern-day Tamil Nadu, India, with Madurai as their capital. The Madurai Nayaks had their origins in the Balija warrior clans of
Tirumalai Nayak
Tirumalai Nayaka Palace Interior
Throne of Tirumala Nayaka
Tamukkam Palace built in 1670
Carnatic Sultanate
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The Carnatic Sultanate, also known as Carnatic State or Arcot State, was a kingdom in southern India between about 1690 and 1855, ruled by a Muslim nawab under the legal purview of the Nizam of Hydera
Madurai Nayak dynasty
…a member of the royal house. However there was severe strife between Bangaru Tirumalai and Meenakshi, and he led an uprising against her. In 1734, the Nawab of Arcot sent an expedition south to demand tribute and fealty from the kingdoms there, and in desperation, Meenakshi gave tribute to the Nawab's son-in-law…
Carnatic (southeast coast), on the Bay of Bengal
Nawab of Carnatic Azim-ud-Daula on the left, signed the Carnatic Treaty ceding tax rights to the British.
In the year 1702, Nawab Daud Khan, the Mughal Empire's local Subedar of the Carnatic, besieged and blockaded Fort St. George for more than three months, the governor of the fort, Thomas Pitt, was instructed by the British East India Company to vie for peace
Death of the Nawab Anwaruddin Muhammed Khan in a battle against the French in 1749, by Paul Philippoteaux