The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c9.s2.t23.1

c9.s2.t23.1

Coorg was ruled in succession by the Koṅgāḷva and Caṅgāḷva chiefs, of the Mysore plateau about the western ghāts, from about the 11th century A.D. till about A.D. 1641; but they were always subject to the Hoysaḷa kings and after them the sovereigns of Vijayanagar. In A.D. 1687 a Bednūr chief succeeded in getting possession of Coorg, and his family ruled there till in 1834, the last Rāja was deposed by the British owing to his cruelties and excesses.