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The Nawabs in the Telugu country (c. 1714–1801)

Era: Mughals, Asaf Jahis & the British

The Nawabs in the Telugu country (c. 1714–1801)KrishnaNawab of CuddapahKurnool jagirNellore & OngolePalnad (Arcot)KurnoolKurnoolCuddapahCuddapahSidhoutSidhoutGandikotaGandikotaGurramkondaGurramkondaPunganurPunganurLakkireddipalleLakkireddipalleNelloreNelloreUdayagiri (Nellore)Udayagiri (Nellore)KavaliKavaliKandukurKandukurOngoleOngoleMacherlaMacherlaSrikalahastiSrikalahastiTirupati and TirumalaTirupati and TirumalaArcotArcotNandyalCumbumDuvvur, 1779N0100 km
  • Unified Andhra Pradesh (pre-2014)
  • Present-day state borders, for orientation
  • Approximate extent

The three Muslim houses that held parts of the Telugu country in the eighteenth century. The Pathan Nawabs of Cuddapah ruled the upland circars of Sidhout, Gandikota, Gurramkonda and Cumbum from about 1714 until Haidar Ali conquered them in 1779; the Pathan Nawabs of Kurnool held Kurnool and its four taluks as a jagir from the 1690s until 1839; and the Nawabs of the Carnatic at Arcot governed Nellore, Ongole and the Palnad until they ceded them to the East India Company in 1801. Lakkireddipalle, where the Nawabs of Kurnool and Cuddapah fell on the Nizam Muzaffar Jang in 1751, and Duvvur, where Haidar Ali defeated the Pathan horse of Cuddapah in 1779, are marked. The shaded areas are rough sketches of the districts the sources name, not surveyed boundaries.

Historical boundaries are approximate. Base map: Natural Earth (opens in a new tab) (public domain). Redrawn from: District of Nellore and Ongole at the date of the assumption in 1801 (opens in a new tab), John A. C. Boswell, A Manual of the Nellore District (lithograph, Government Press, Madras), 1873 (Public domain). Attributions

Sources

  1. Mark Wilks, Historical Sketches of the South of India, in an Attempt to Trace the History of Mysoor, Vol. I (opens in a new tab), Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, London, 1810, pp. 218, 227. [Public domain]
  2. C. F. Brackenbury, Madras District Gazetteers: Cuddapah, Vol. I (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1915, pp. 41. [Public domain]
  3. J. D. B. Gribble, A Manual of the District of Cuddapah in the Presidency of Madras (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1875, pp. 89–91. [Public domain]
  4. Government of India, Imperial Gazetteer of India, Provincial Series: Madras, Vol. I (opens in a new tab), Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1908, pp. 302, 407. [Public domain]
  5. An Account of the Kurnool District, based on an Analysis of Statistical Information relating thereto, and on Personal Observation (opens in a new tab), Superintendent, Government Press, Madras, 1889, pp. 1. [Public domain]
  6. Narahari Gopalakristnamah Chetty, A Manual of the Kurnool District in the Presidency of Madras (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1886, pp. 34. [Public domain]
  7. John A. C. Boswell, A Manual of the Nellore District in the Presidency of Madras (opens in a new tab), Government of Madras, 1873, pp. 464–467, 474. [Public domain]
  8. Mark Wilks, Historical Sketches of the South of India, in an Attempt to Trace the History of Mysoor, Vol. II (opens in a new tab), Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1817, pp. 191. [Public domain]