Medanapalle

Medanapalle was founded in 1618 by Yalagiri Ahobila Naidu in the upland country of Rayalaseema. The wider region had formed part of the Vijayanagara Empire and later passed through the hands of Deccan rulers. In 1800 the Nizam of Hyderabad ceded the country to the East India Company. Thomas Munro, the Company's collector at Cuddapah, came to Medanapalle in summer and had a small house built here.