Musunuri Kapaya Nayaka

Musunuri Kapaya Nayaka
Reign 1336 - 1368 CE.
Religion Hinduism
Occupation Leader of confederation of Telugu nobles who united to liberate Telugu country from the Delhi Sultanate.

Musunuri Kapaya Nayaka was a leader of a confederacy of several Telugu nobles who united to liberate the Telugu country from the Tughlaq rule. He ruled from Warangal in modern-day Telangana between 1336-1368 CE.[1]

As with other Musunuri Nayaks, there is little information concerning him in the historical record, and the lives of the Musunuris in general are often described as "obscure".[2][3]

References

  1. Eaton, Richard M. (2005). A Social History of the Deccan: 1300–1761. Cambridge University Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-52125-484-7.
  2. Talbot, Austin Cynthia (2001). Pre-colonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra. Oxford University Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-19803-123-9.
  3. Eaton, Richard M. (2005). A Social History of the Deccan: 1300–1761. Cambridge University Press. pp. 26–28. ISBN 978-0-52125-484-7.

Further reading

  • Sarma, M. Somasekhara; A Forgotten Chapter of Andhra History 1945, Andhra University, Waltair
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