Yedagiri

Yedagiri, or Yadgir, is a fortified town on the northern Deccan plateau. Its hilltop fort bears inscriptions from the Adil Shahi period and preserves the remains of successive defences. The town stood within the changing sphere of the Bahmani sultans and their successors, between the great centres of Gulbarga and Bijapur.

In 1504 Yadgir was incorporated into the Adil Shahi kingdom of Bijapur. It later came under Mughal authority during the Deccan campaigns of the seventeenth century, and in the eighteenth century passed into the territories of the Asaf Jahi Nizams of Hyderabad. Two inscriptions at the fort date from the sixteenth century, when the Adil Shahis held the region. The inscriptions and walls recall the successive rulers who valued this position on the plateau.