 During Sriranga Raya's reign in 1614, a coup broke out within the royal family and the reigning Emperor Sriranga Raya and his royal family were murdered by the rival factions of the royal family, with the younger son Rama Deva Raya of the emperor smuggled out from the fort by supporting factions of the emperor.These events led to the Battle of Toppur in 1616, one of the largest South Indian wars of the century.In 1639, Francis Day of the East India Company obtained a small strip of land in the Coromandel Coast from the chieftains of the Vellore-Chandragiri regions to do trading, which is in present-day Chennai.