Tenkasi Pandyans and TN during the 1300s
Anyone have any historical reports about the Pandyan Dynasty during the 1300s-1500s period. It seems to be that they lost Madurai but then kept control of the far southern part of their territory in the Tenpandi Nadu region after the Tughlaq Invasions. It seems that period they are known as the Tenkasi Pandyans from then on ruling from Tenkasi. And finally they were deposed completely by the Vijayanagar empire later. Is there any information about what they were up to, did they try to take Madurai back during either the Madurai Sultanate or Vijayanagar period or conflict with either throughout?
There seems to be a variety of answers by historians on how long and in what minor periods the Madurai sultanate actually had influence in their specific region of Tamil Nadu and many seem to think there was a blip of some years where they lost power after they consolidated rule before they got back in power again due to archaeological evidences like periods of certain coinage showing up and disappearing again. Maybe they were overthrown for a short bit of time by the southern Pandyans or another community? Any sources to find out more would be great.
It’s pretty crazy to think about the fact that foreign Islamic invaders (not the religion itself) entered the subcontinent, albeit by a different invading community, around 600 years before reaching Tamilakam. Shows how vastly different historical experiences in South Asia are by region.