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The following list enumerates Hindu monarchies in chronological order of establishment dates. These monarchies were widespread in South Asia since about 1500 BC, [1] went into slow decline in the medieval times, with most gone by the end of the 17th century, although the last one, the Kingdom of Nepal, dissolved only in the 2008.
The Lohara dynasty were Hindu rulers of Kashmir from the Khasa tribe, [60] [61] in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, between 1003 and approximately 1320 CE. The dynasty was founded by the Samgramaraja , the grandson of Khasha chief Simharaja and the nephew of the Utpala dynasty Queen Didda .
A Hindu kingdom was described as formed from seven "limbs": [4] the king himself (svāmī). The king typically represented the kshatria, a class of warrior aristocracy in the four varnas caste system. [4] Hindu kingships usually did not have a priest-king, as the priestly duties were mostly performed by brahmins; [5] king's ministers (amātyas);
According to Hindu traditions, Shraddhadeva Manu (Sanskrit manuśraddhādeva) is the current Manu and the progenitor of the current manvantara. He is considered as the seventh of the fourteen Manus of the current kalpa (aeon). [1] Shraddhadeva Manu was the king of the Dravida kingdom [2] before the Pralaya, the great flood.
The Vijayanagara Empire (1336–1646) was the most prominent medieval Hindu empire of southern India.It was established on the banks of Tungabhadra River in present-day Karnataka and consisted of the modern states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Goa and some parts of Telangana, Maharashtra and Sri Lanka.
This category lists significant emperors, rayas, kings, sultans, ... Indian Hindu monarchs (31 C) Indian Muslim monarchs (11 C, 1 P) Indian queens regnant (1 C, 21 P)
Kings of Champa (1 C, 74 P) I. ... Pages in category "Hindu monarchs" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 282 total.
The Sultan of Delhi was the absolute monarch of the Delhi Sultanate which stretched over large parts of the subcontinent during the period of Medieval India, for 320 years (1206–1526).