The Mysorean Civil War was a violent conflict in the Kingdom of Mysore and Hyderabad between 1977 and 1988. The war was fought between the Muslim rulers of the Hindu-majority kingdom and Hindu rebels seeking to form a separate state. The Muslim rulers in place were funded by the French Empire and directly aided by arms, material, money and volunteers from Muslim-majority Hindustan, while the Hindus were funded by the United States and aided by a steady flow of cash, arms and guerrilla fighters from Gangestan to the north. As a result, the local ethnic and sectarian conflict is considered a Second Era Cold War event.