Civil War
Once Andriamasinavalona's sons had been installed in their territories, Andriantomponimerina tested his authority by imposing a particular hairstyle upon the Marovatana people he ruled. Years earlier, when Andriamasinavalona had affected the incorporation of this community into the Kingdom of Imerina, the king had promised they could keep their own customs. When the Marovatana reminded the king of this vow and refused to submit, the king and his sons launched a war against the people of the fief. According to oral history, a half-brother to the prince named Andrianentoarivo planted the suggestion that Andriantomponimerina could supplant his father as king through trickery.
In opposition to Andriamasinavalona's intentions, his sons forsook the concept of unity and instead fought one another in an effort to expand their realms. As a consequence of this decision, Imerina was to remain fragmented and wracked with conflict among principalities until it was once again united during the reign of Andrianampoinimerina (1787–1810).
Before his death, Andriamasinavalona was humiliatingly imprisoned for five years by his own son, Andriantomponimerina I, then ruler of the western principality.
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