Originally eight estates or Samsthanams and sixteen by the time of merger of Hyderabad into India, some of these are kingdoms which straddled the Krishna–Tungabhadra doab and acted as a buffer between Vijayanagara and Bahamani Sultanate and were generally under Vijayanagara control till the fateful Battle of Talikota. The Paigah Jagirs are not touched u…
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