Reading guides

Guided paths through the site. Each takes one subject in a sensible order, a page at a time, for anyone who wants to learn it from the start.

1. After the Kakatiyas: Musunuris, Velamas, Reddis and GajapatisThis path covers the Telugu chiefs and kingdoms that rose after the fall of Warangal, and the powers that fought over the land. It has 15 pages and takes about 3 hours to read.15 pages
2. From Andhra State to two statesThis path covers how the Telugu districts became one state and then two, with the leaders of those years. It has 8 pages and takes about 1 hour to read.8 pages
3. The Asaf Jahis and Hyderabad StateThis path covers the Nizams of Hyderabad, their ministers and their capital, up to the end of their rule. It has 13 pages and takes about 2 hours to read.13 pages
4. The Eastern Chalukyas and VengiThis path follows the kings of the Vengi coast and their neighbours in the Deccan, and the beginning of Telugu writing. It has 15 pages and takes about 3 hours to read.15 pages
5. The freedom struggle and the Telangana armed struggleThis path covers social reform, the freedom campaigns in the Telugu districts, the movements in Hyderabad State and the people who led them. It has 15 pages and takes about 1 and a half hours to read.15 pages
6. The Kakatiyas of WarangalThis path tells the story of the Kakatiya kings, their capitals, temples and lakes, and the end of their kingdom. It has 14 pages and takes about 2 and a half hours to read.14 pages
7. The kingdoms of the Telugu land, one age at a timeThis path gives the whole story in order, with one page for each age, from the earliest times to the present day. It has 10 pages and takes about 2 hours to read.10 pages
8. The Qutb Shahis and GolcondaThis path covers the sultans of Golconda, the founding of Hyderabad and its great buildings, and the end of the kingdom. It has 15 pages and takes about 2 and a half hours to read.15 pages
9. Reading inscriptions and datesThis path follows the Learn course, from how an inscription is put together to the scripts, numbers and dates you will meet. It has 14 pages and takes about 3 hours to read, longer if you do the exercises.14 pages
10. The Satavahanas and the early kingdomsThis path covers the first kings of the Telugu land, their Buddhist stupas and the dynasties that came after them. It has 15 pages and takes about 3 and a half hours to read.15 pages
11. Telugu language, poets and literatureThis path follows Telugu writing from the first records in the language to the modern writers who changed how it is written. It has 15 pages and takes about 1 and a half hours to read.15 pages
12. Temples, forts and monumentsThis path visits the great buildings of the Telugu land in the order they were built, from Buddhist stupas to the palaces of the Nizams. It has 15 pages and takes about 2 hours to read.15 pages
13. The Company and the British in the coastal and Rayalaseema districtsThis path covers the European traders on the coast, the wars that gave the Company the coastal and Rayalaseema districts, and British rule there. It has 15 pages and takes about 3 hours to read.15 pages
14. Vijayanagara and the Telugu countryThis path covers the Vijayanagara empire in the Telugu lands: its kings, its poets, its temples and its forts in Rayalaseema. It has 14 pages and takes about 2 hours to read.14 pages