The throne of the western Chalukya dynasty, usurped in about 115 by Bijjala II, leader of the feudatory Kalachuri dynasty, becomes the object of a contest among Bijjala’s successors, allowing Chalukya dynast Somesvara IV to reverse the usurpation after 1167.

The Hoysala and Seuna dynasties, Telugu-speaking feudatories of the Western Chalukya Empire, ally with the Kakatiya family, inherited as a feudatory by the Chola in 1070, in a war against the eastern Chalukya dynasty beginning in 1180.