Tandur

Tandur lies on the Deccan plateau west of Hyderabad, in a landscape known for beds of limestone. The stone occurs in several colours and has long been useful as a building material. The town belongs to a region once governed from Golconda and later Hyderabad, where the dry plateau is broken by fields and rocky outcrops. Its position places it between the former seats of Deccan power at Golconda and Bidar.