Nayakkar dynasty

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South Indian-origin dynasty royal dynasty ruling house of Kandy

The Nayakkar dynasty was a South Indian-origin royal house that ruled the Kingdom of Kandy in Sri Lanka during its final centuries before British annexation.

Aliases (1)

Nayaka dynasty ×1

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	South Indian-origin dynasty → royal dynasty → ruling house of Kandy →
broughtToThroneBy	Kandyan nobility →
capital	Kandy →
conflict	Kandyan Wars →
country	Kingdom of Kandy →
culturalImpact	integration of South Indian and Sinhalese court traditions →
dynasticMarriageLinks	South Indian Nayak families →
endedWithEvent	British annexation of Kandy in 1815 →
endTime	1815 →
ethnicOrigin	Telugu →
event	Kandyan Convention of 1815 →
finalPhaseOf	Kandyan monarchy →
followedBy	British Ceylon administration →
governmentForm	absolute monarchy →
historicalEra	early modern period →
knownFor	South Indian cultural influence at Kandyan court → final indigenous monarchy in Sri Lanka →
languageOfCourt	Sinhala → Tamil →
lastRulingMonarch	Sri Vikrama Rajasinha →
legitimizedBy	Buddhist clergy of Kandy →
maintained	Theravada Buddhist institutions in Kandy →
notableRuler	Kirti Sri Rajasinha → Rajadhi Rajasinha → Sri Vijaya Rajasinha → Sri Vikrama Rajasinha →
opponent	British Empire in Ceylon →
overthrownBy	British Empire →
partOf	history of Sri Lanka → history of the Kingdom of Kandy →
patronized	Buddhist Sangha in Sri Lanka →
politicalStatus	client monarchy under increasing British influence →
precededBy	House of Dinajara (Kandyan royal line) →
region	Sri Lanka →
regionOfOrigin	South India →
religion	Buddhism (patronage) → Hinduism →
ruled	Kingdom of Kandy →
startTime	1739 →
territory	Central Highlands of Sri Lanka →
titleOfRulers	Rajasinha → Sri Raja Sinha →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
King of Kandy ("Nayaka dynasty") →	dynasty
Kingdom of Kandy →	lastRulingDynasty