Banganapalle State
Era: Mughals, Asaf Jahis & the British
- Unified Andhra Pradesh (pre-2014)
- Present-day state borders, for orientation
- Approximate extent
The small nawabi state of Banganapalle in the Kurnool district, about 255 square miles round the town of Banganapalle in the valley of the Jurreru, from the Rampur pass over the Erramalas in the west to the Kunderu in the east. It was held by the family of the Mughal killedar Muhammad Beg Khan from the early eighteenth century until the Madras government took over its administration in February 1948. The shaded area is a rough sketch of the gazetteer's description, not a surveyed boundary.
Historical boundaries are approximate. Base map: Natural Earth (opens in a new tab) (public domain).
Sources
- Imperial Gazetteer of India, Imperial Gazetteer of India, Provincial Series: Madras, Vol. II (opens in a new tab), Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1908, pp. 471, 474–476. [Public domain]
- Narahari Gopalakristnamah Chetty, A Manual of the Kurnool District in the Presidency of Madras (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1886, pp. 245, 251. [Public domain]