The Deccan and the South

Peninsular India, which was never governed from the north for long and spent most of its history under dynasties the north barely recorded — a Tamil empire that sent fleets to Sumatra, a city on the Tungabhadra that Persian visitors compared to Rome, and a sultanate that broke into five.

The line below is a time axis. Position on it is date, so concurrency is visible: concurrent polities sit side by side rather than in sequence.

5 sourced edges run between this region and another, to Mughal Empire, Kanva Empire, Delhi Sultanate and Sultanate of Khandesh. Those are not drawn on this line — a thread that crossed regions would assert a sequence nobody cited — but they are on each polity’s own page.

200 BC2004006008001000120014001600Satavahana Empire 271 BC – 174Pallava Dynasty 200–350 to 897Chalukya Empire (Badami) 543 – 753Pandya Kingdom 590–620 to 1330Rashtrakuta Empire 753 – 973Chola Empire 850 – 1554Hoysala Empire 1022–1027 to 1342Kakatiya Dynasty 1150 – 1323Vijayanagara 1336 – 1793Bahmani Sultanate 1347 – 1526Berar Sultanate 1485 – 1572Ahmadnagar Sultanate 1490 – 1599Bijapur Sultanate 1490 – 1596Bidar Sultanate 1492 – 1609Golconda Sultanate 1512 – 1611753 Rashtrakuta Empire overthrew Chalukya Empire (Badami)897 Pallava Dynasty conquered by Chola Empire910 Pandya Kingdom conquered by Chola Empire1279 Chola Empire conquered by Pandya Kingdom1342 Vijayanagara absorbed remnants of Hoysala Empire1485 Berar Sultanate seceded from Bahmani Sultanate1490 Ahmadnagar Sultanate seceded from Bahmani Sultanate1490 Bijapur Sultanate seceded from Bahmani Sultanate1492 Bidar Sultanate seceded from Bahmani Sultanate1512 Golconda Sultanate seceded from Bahmani Sultanate1572 Berar Sultanate conquered by Ahmadnagar Sultanate