इतिहास
This plateau has held imperial capitals more often than any other part of the Kannada country — Manyakheta, Kalyani, Vijayanagara, Kalaburagi, Bidar — and its periods are set by which of them was occupied. The ancient period ends in 973 with the fall of the Rashtrakutas at Manyakheta; the medieval period is the long run of capitals in the doab and on the Bidar tableland, and it ends in 1724. The modern period begins there, with the founding of the Asaf Jahi state, and it does something no other Kannada region's does: it splits the place in two. Five of the seven districts stayed in the Nizam's dominions until 1947, while Ballari was ceded to the East India Company in 1800 and administered from Madras for a century and a half. That division is why Dakhni is a household language on one side of the Tungabhadra and not the other, and why the region has two unconnected histories of anti-colonial politics rather than one.
कालक्रम यहाँ क्षेत्रीय है, राष्ट्रीय नहीं — मध्यकाल हर क्षेत्र में एक ही सदी से शुरू नहीं होता।
प्राचीनc. 3rd century BCE – 973 CE
The plateau carries some of the earliest datable material in the Kannada country. Ashokan rock edicts stand near Koppal, at Palkigundu and Gavimath, and on the Bhima at Sannati a Buddhist complex at Kanaganahalli has produced Ashokan edicts and a stupa with a sculpted royal portrait labelled as Ashoka. The period's political weight, though, belongs to the Rashtrakutas, who took the Deccan from the Badami Chalukyas in 753 and, under Amoghavarsha I, made Manyakheta — Malkhed, in the Kalaburagi district — the capital of an empire that Arab geographers ranked with the great states of the world. Amoghavarsha's court produced the Kavirajamarga, the earliest surviving work on poetics in Kannada, which is to say that the language acquires a literary theory here before it acquires anything else.
मध्यकालीन973 – 1724
For seven centuries the region held one capital after another and the doab between the Krishna and the Tungabhadra was the frontier every one of them fought over. The Western Chalukyas moved to Kalyani about 1042 and under Vikramaditya VI ran the Deccan from it; Vijnaneshwara wrote the Mitakshara there, the commentary that became the standard authority on inheritance across most of India. In the 1160s the Kalachuri Bijjala II held the same city, and his treasurer Basavanna presided over the assembly at which potters, washermen, cobblers and women wrote vachanas — signed prose-poems in spoken Kannada, with no metre and no Sanskrit. Three centuries later the Bahmani sultanate ran the plateau from Kalaburagi and then from Bidar, while Vijayanagara held Hampi on the Tungabhadra, and the Raichur doab changed hands between them repeatedly by treaty and by battle.
आधुनिक1724 – 1947
In 1724 Asaf Jah I made the Mughal Deccan into a state of his own, and five of these districts spent the next two hundred and twenty years in it. Ballari went the other way. Under the subsidiary arrangement of 1800 the Nizam ceded the country south of the Tungabhadra to the East India Company; Thomas Munro spent seven years there as Principal Collector and introduced the ryotwari settlement, which assessed each cultivator directly instead of through an intermediary and shaped landholding in the district for the next century and a half. The Raichur doab itself was assigned to the British in 1853 and restored to the Nizam in 1860. The consequence is a region in which two administrative systems, two revenue histories and two political vocabularies sit on the same soil.
शासक और सेनापति
Amoghavarsha I Nripatunga, Maharajadhiraja शासक 814–878
Moved the Rashtrakuta capital to Manyakheta, now Malkhed in Kalaburagi district, and held it for more than sixty years. The Kavirajamarga, the earliest surviving work on poetics in Kannada, was composed at his court about 850 and is attributed to him or to a poet writing under his name.
राजवंश: Rashtrakuta. राजधानी: Manyakheta
Basavanna Bhandari, treasurer to the Kalachuri court प्रशासक 12th century; his dates are contested
Held the treasury under Bijjala II and presided over the Anubhava Mantapa, an open assembly at which several hundred writers, among them washermen, cobblers, potters and about thirty women, composed vachanas — short signed prose-poems in spoken Kannada. Later tradition makes him the founder of a new faith; modern scholarship treats him as reviving and reorganising a tradition already there, and notes that the poems and legends about him were written down long after his lifetime.
राजवंश: Administration of the Kalachuris at Kalyana. राजधानी: Kalyana
Gona Ganna Reddy General to the Kakatiya court सेनापति recorded 1294
Built the fort at Raichur in 1294 under the Kakatiya queen Rudramadevi, according to its own foundation inscription. The doab's fort line, which every later power in this region fought over, starts with it.
राजवंश: Kakatiya. राजधानी: Raichur
Alauddin Bahman Shah Sultan संस्थापक 1347–1358
Proclaimed sultan on 3 August 1347 by the officers of the Deccan provinces after they broke from Delhi. He made Kalaburagi the capital and minted his coin there; the fort in the city carries the same date.
राजवंश: Bahmani. राजधानी: Kalaburagi
Mahmud Gawan Malik-ut-Tujjar, chief minister संरक्षक 1466–1481
A Persian merchant who became the sultanate's chief minister and effectively governed it during a minority, extending its territory and reorganising its provinces. The madrasa he founded at Bidar in 1472 taught religious and secular subjects and held a large library. He was executed on the sultan's order in 1481, a decision the sultan is recorded as having regretted until his own death the following year.
राजवंश: Bahmani. राजधानी: Bidar
Krishnadevaraya Maharaya शासक 1509–1529
Under him the empire reached its greatest extent, and the capital on the Tungabhadra took the form Portuguese visitors described. He took the Raichur doab from Bijapur in 1520, the single most fought over stretch of ground on this plateau.
राजवंश: Tuluva line of Vijayanagara. राजधानी: Vijayanagara
Ali Barid Shah I Sultan शासक 1542–1580
The first of the Barid line to take the royal title, in 1542. Bidar under the Barid Shahis was small but built heavily, and their tombs and the workshops of the city are where the bidri craft — zinc alloy inlaid with silver and blackened with soil taken from inside the fort — took its present form.
राजवंश: Barid Shahi of Bidar. राजधानी: Bidar
Raja Venkatappa Nayaka Raja of Surapura विद्रोही died 1858
The last raja of the Bedar chiefship of Surapura, in the present Yadgir district. He acted against the East India Company in 1857–58; the chiefship ended in 1858.
राजवंश: Bedar chiefs of Surapura. राजधानी: Surapura