Carnatic Sultanate

State · 1713–1802 CE · at its largest around 1800 CE

The domain of the Nawabs of the Carnatic in southeastern India, nominally subordinate to Hyderabad, whose rival claimants were backed by Britain and France in the Carnatic Wars.

On its lands while it lasted

• Arcot (c. 1713 CE): Capital of Carnatic Sultanate (1713–1768).
• Great Trigonometrical Survey (1802–1871 CE): Survey that measured the Indian subcontinent by triangulation, beginning at Madras in 1802; it established the height of Mount Everest.

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