Places of the Telugu ballads
Era: Kakatiyas, Nayakas, Reddis & Bahmanis, Vijayanagara & the Qutb Shahis, Mughals, Asaf Jahis & the British
- Unified Andhra Pradesh (pre-2014)
- Present-day state borders, for orientation
Where the heroic and popular ballads recorded between the 1820s and the 1900s are set: the Palnadu war of Brahma Nayudu, Katama Raju's war with Nellore, the fall of Bobbili in 1757, and the songs of the Vizagapatam ballad-singers and of Ramadasu at Bhadrachalam.
Base map: Natural Earth (opens in a new tab) (public domain).
Sources
- H. H. Wilson, The Mackenzie Collection: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Oriental Manuscripts of the South of India, Vol. I (opens in a new tab), Asiatic Press, Calcutta, 1828, pp. 304–305. [Public domain]
- Robert Sewell, Lists of the Antiquarian Remains in the Presidency of Madras, Vol. I (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1882, App. A, pp. i–ii, xiii, xv. [Public domain]
- Gordon Mackenzie, A Manual of the Kistna District in the Presidency of Madras (opens in a new tab), Government of Madras (Lawrence Asylum Press), 1883, pp. 37–38, 161–162. [Public domain]
- Edgar Thurston and K. Rangachari, Castes and Tribes of Southern India, Vol. II (C to J) (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1909, pp. 118–119, 292. [Public domain]
- W. Francis, Madras District Gazetteers: Vizagapatam, Vol. I (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1907, pp. 238–241. [Public domain]