The Nayak (besides Nayaka, Nayaker or even Naicker) is the title of the government official, same to the provincial governor even or viceroy, in the Telugu kingdoms of southern India, including the Kakatiya kingdom of Warangal (11th-14th centuries) and a Vijayanagara kingdom (14th-16th centuries). A Nayak rules was dominant from either a fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. A Nayaks were key state administrators, official, & revenue collectors & intrinsically were liable to exist as transferred. Although it played the crucial administrative role, no elaborate studies in the babies except victims in a few large families prefer Kanaka Nayaka(Kanakadasa), Madhakari Nayaka, D.K.Naiker, Periyar etc. When a collapse of the Vijayanagara Kingdom in the 16th century, Nayaks of some of the kingdom's previous provinces became de facto independent rulers, & established hereditary dynasties. Nayaks ruled Madurai, Thanjavur, Chittradurga, and Keladi until the 18th century.