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The word "dynasty" (from the Greek: δυναστεία, dynasteía "power", "lordship", from dynástes "ruler") [3] is sometimes used informally for people who are not rulers but are, for example, members of a family with influence and power in other areas, such as a series of successive owners of a major company, or any family with a legacy, such as a dynasty of poets or actors.
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.
Madurai Nayak dynasty; Magadai; Maharajas of Valkha; Maitraka dynasty; Malayamān; Mana dynasty; Mannanar dynasty; Maratha Confederacy; Mathara dynasty; Mauryan dynasty; Mauryas of Puri; Metla Rajulu; Midnapore Raj; Mitra dynasty (Kosambi) Mitra dynasty (Mathura) Mughal dynasty; Mukne dynasty; Murunda dynasty; Mutharaiyar dynasty; Muzaffarids ...
The title Kṣaharāta by which the Western Satraps styled themselves is a derivation of a Saka language term *xšaθrapati, meaning "lord of the country", and was likely the Saka synonym for the Indian title Kṣatrapa, which had itself been borrowed from the Iranian Median language.
Suryavansh Dynasty or Ikshwaku Dynasty or Raghuvansh Dynasty : Kachwaha (Kushwah) claim descent from Kush, a son of the avatar of Vishnu, Rama, as expressed by them citing historical documents during the Supreme court of India proceedings on Ram Mandir at Ayodhya. [6]
The Tughlaq dynasty (also known as the Tughluq or Tughluk dynasty; Persian: تغلق شاهیان) was the third dynasty to rule over the Delhi Sultanate in medieval India. [10] Its reign started in 1320 in Delhi when Ghazi Malik assumed the throne under the title of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq and ended in 1413.
Abhinavagupta; Adi Shankara; Akka Mahadevi; Allama Prabhu; Alvars; Basava; Chaitanya; Ramdas Kathiababa; Chakradhara; Chāngadeva; Dadu Dayal; Eknath; Gangesha Upadhyaya
For the next ten centuries, both Hind and Hindustan were used within the subcontinent with exactly this meaning, along with their adjectives Hindawi, Hindustani and Hindi. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] [ 30 ] Indeed, in 1220 CE, historian Hasan Nizami described Hind as being "from Peshawar to the shores of the [Indian] Ocean , and in the other direction from ...