Hanagal

Hanagal lies in the dry plateau country east of Chitradurga, near the routes between Challakere and the Bellary plain. The region was part of a landscape of fortified settlements and local chiefs under Vijayanagara and its successors. Chitradurga’s Nayakas built their power around the great granite stronghold to the west; their state lasted until Haidar Ali of Mysore captured the fort in 1779.