History
After Vishwanatha Nayaka took over the country, it was held by the Nayak dynasty,(Kapu or Balija community) for two centuries, with a few short periods of break, until in a chaotic situation Muslims took it in 1736 for a brief period, and finally the British took it during the 1780$2s.
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