The Company and the British in the coastal and Rayalaseema districts
This 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.
- ErasMughals, Asaf Jahis & the British
The big picture: how the coastal Circars and the Ceded Districts passed to the East India Company.
- DynastiesDutch East India Company
The Dutch traders on the Telugu coast, their factories and their cloth trade.
- DynastiesEast India Company
The English Company, from its factories on the coast to its rule over the Telugu districts.
- PlacesMachilipatnam
The port where the English, Dutch and French traded, later the chief town of the Circars.
- PlacesVisakhapatnam
The port where the Company founded a factory, and what happened to it.
- DynastiesFrench East India Company
The French Company, the Circars it received and how it lost them.
- PeopleCharles de Bussy
The French general who won the Northern Circars for his Company.
- PeopleFrancis Forde
The officer who won the Northern Circars from the French for the East India Company.
- DynastiesNawabs of the Carnatic (Arcot)
The Nawabs of the Carnatic, whose Telugu districts were Nellore, Ongole and the Palnad.
- DynastiesMysore under Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan
Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan in Rayalaseema, and how those lands became the Ceded Districts.
- DynastiesNawabs of Kurnool
The Pathan Nawabs of Kurnool, up to the British take-over.
- PeopleSir Thomas Munro
The first Principal Collector of the Ceded Districts and his settlement with each cultivator.
- PeopleSir Arthur Cotton
The engineer who built the Godavari anicut and turned the delta into rice land.
- MonumentsDowleswaram anicut
The masonry dam across the Godavari at the head of the delta.
- DynastiesBritish Crown (Madras Presidency)
How the Crown governed the Telugu districts of the Madras Presidency.