Khammamet

Khammamet, the historical Khammam of Telangana, grew beneath the hills associated with the Narasimha temple. Local tradition connects its older name, Kambamettu, with the rock beneath that shrine. The granite fort above the town belonged to the succession of fortified centres through which rulers of the eastern Deccan held territory.

During the early sixteenth century the fort came under Qutb Shahi power, tying it to the kingdom centred on Golconda. Mughal conquest in 1687 ended that kingdom, and the region subsequently entered the political world of the Hyderabad Nizams. The fort's fabric carried the imprint of successive rulers, while the hill shrine preserved a different strand of local memory. Together they gave the town religious and military centres that endured across changes of dynasty.