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The title of the blog is inspired by China Miéville's wonderful book of the same name. Like Besźel/Ul Qoma, Hyderabad too has a dichotomy that defies explanation sometimes.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.- The header image is "Tombs of the Kings of Golconda" (1813) by Robert Melville Grindlay. From The British Library's Online Gallery.
Monthly Archives: June 2013
The First King
Rudradeva After the death of Prola II in battle (possibly with the Eastern Chalukyas of Vengi), his son Rudradeva (aka Prataparudra I) became the king of a now fully independent Kakatiya kingdom. Rudradeva, by all accounts, was a worthy successor … Continue reading
Posted in Before the Sultanate, The Kingdoms
Tagged Ganapati Deva, History, Hyderabad, Kakatiya, Palnadu, Prataparudra, Prola, Warangal, Warangal Fort
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