Balkonda

Balkonda lies in northern Telangana, near the Godavari River and the rocky uplands of the Deccan. Its fort appears in accounts of the Bahmani sultanate. In the fifteenth century the general Mahmud Gawan besieged rebels there; after they surrendered, the sultan granted them pardon. Such forts provided defensible centres for the rulers and military households competing for control of the Telangana country.