Hoskote

Hoskote stood east of Bangalore in the contested southern Deccan. During the seventeenth century, its political history became entangled with the expansion of Bijapur and the establishment of Shahji's authority over a group of southern principalities. Following the Bijapur campaigns of 1638, Hoskote was placed under Shahji's charge along with Bangalore, Kolar, Doddaballapur and Sira.

The Mughal conquest of Bijapur in 1686 brought another reorganisation. Sira became the capital of a province composed of seven parganas, one of which was Hoskote. A subedar or faujdar governed this provincial structure. Hoskote's changing place within these arrangements linked a local territorial unit to two successive imperial systems: first Bijapur's distribution of southern commands, then Mughal administration centred on Sira. The town's history in this period consequently belonged to a wider political geography extending across several neighbouring chiefdoms.