Damarla Chennapa Nayakar was a
Nayakar ruler of
Kalahasti
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and
Vandavasi
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under the suzerainty of
Vijayanagar
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emperor
Venkatapati Raya
Venkatapati Raya (or Venkata II, r. 1585–1614 CE) was the younger brother of Sriranga Deva Raya (also the youngest son of Tirumala Deva Raya ) and the ruler of Vijayanagara Empire with bases in Penukonda, Chandragiri and Vellore. His reign ...
(). He was also the ''Dalavoy'' or the Commander-in-Chief of the emperor. The line of
Nayakars were chieftains during the
Vijayanagar empire
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and attained full power after its decline, becoming independent Nayakars.
The city of
Chennai
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(originally called "Chennapatinnam") was founded by his sons, Venkatappa and Ayyappa, and named after Chennapa Nayakar. It was established in order to separate the warring Europeans within the region, the
Dutch
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People E ...
based at
Pulicat
Pulicat or Pazhaverkadu is a historic seashore town in Chennai Metropolitan Area at Thiruvallur District, of Tamil Nadu state, India. It is about north of Chennai and from Elavur, on the southern periphery of the Pulicat Lake. Pulicat lake i ...
and the
Portuguese
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based at
Mylapore
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. Later the British establishment at
Madras
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(
Fort St. George
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) was set up to the south of Chennapata.
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Notes
References
Further reading
* Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman, Sanjay Subrahmanyam. ''Symbols of substance : court and state in Nayaka period Tamilnadu'' (Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998) ; xix, 349 p.,
6p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm. ; Oxford India paperbacks ; Includes bibliographical references and index ; .
*K.A. Nilakanta Sastry, History of South India, From Prehistoric times to fall of Vijayanagar, 1955, OUP, (Reprinted 2002) {{ISBN, 0-19-560686-8.
History of Chennai
Telugu monarchs