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The Delhi Sultanate and the Telugu country, 1303–1336

Era: Kakatiyas, Nayakas, Reddis & Bahmanis

The Delhi Sultanate and the Telugu country, 1303–1336GodavariKrishnaMalik Kafur, 1309–10Ulugh Khan, 1323WarangalWarangalHanamkondaHanamkondaGolcondaGolcondaRajahmundryRajahmundryKaulasKaulasDevagiri (Daulatabad)BidarIndur (Nizamabad)N0100 km
  • Unified Andhra Pradesh (pre-2014)
  • Present-day state borders, for orientation
  • Route

Warangal and the places named in the Delhi campaigns against the Kakatiyas and in the Tughluq province of Tilang: the roads of Malik Kafur in 1309–10 (by Devagiri and the frontier town of Indur) and of Ulugh Khan in 1323 (by Devagiri and Bidar), the hill of Anumakonda from which Kafur watched the city, the mosque of 1324 at Rajahmundry, and Kaulas and Golconda, later lost by the Musunuri chiefs to the Bahmanis.

Base map: Natural Earth (opens in a new tab) (public domain).

Sources

  1. H. M. Elliot and John Dowson (eds.), The History of India as Told by Its Own Historians: The Muhammadan Period, Vol. III (opens in a new tab), Trübner and Co., London, 1871, pp. 80, 201–202, 233. [Public domain]
  2. Muhammad Qasim Ferishta (tr. John Briggs), History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India till the Year A.D. 1612, Vol. I (opens in a new tab), Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, London, 1829, pp. 371–372. [Public domain]
  3. Wolseley Haig (ed.), The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans (opens in a new tab), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1928, pp. 115, 131. [Public domain]
  4. F. R. Hemingway, Madras District Gazetteers: Godavari, Vol. I (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1907, pp. 25. [Public domain]
  5. Muhammad Qasim Ferishta (tr. John Briggs), History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India till the Year A.D. 1612, Vol. II (opens in a new tab), Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, London, 1829, pp. 293, 305. [Public domain]