Medak

Medak belongs to the Telangana plateau, where a hill fortress overlooks the surrounding agricultural country. The fort was originally built under the Kakatiya rulers and was later developed by the Qutb Shahis. Within its walls stand granaries and a mosque attributed to the seventeenth-century Qutb Shahi period. The wider Deccan passed through changing political regimes, including the rulers of Golconda, Mughal authority and later the Nizams of Hyderabad. Fortified centres depended on supplies and labour from their hinterlands as well as on their commanding positions.