Nandapur

Nandapur was a highland kingdom in southern Odisha, ruled from Nandapur by the Silavamsa. In the early fourteenth century Ganga Raja and his son Bhairava Raja held the kingdom and married into the Matsya dynasty.

In 1434 Pratap Ganga Raja campaigned to the Bay of Bengal, boasting that he had washed his sword in the sea; Kapilendra Deva later made him tributary. The line ended with daughter Lilavati, whose husband Vinayak Dev founded a new dynasty; his descendant Vishwanath Dev moved the capital to Jeypore. The kingdom regained independence after 1540, paid Golconda tribute until 1671 and accepted British suzerainty in 1777.