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The Raichur Doab is a Doab, in this case the triangular region of land in the southern Indian states of Telangana and Karnataka lying between the Krishna River and its tributary, the Tungabhadra River. The doab is named for the town of Raichur in the Raichur District.
Jul 7, 2018 · Throughout history, the region between Krishna and Tungabhadra (Raichur Doab) remained a bone of contention between the major kingdoms of the south. Of the various empires that ruled the Deccan such as the Chalukyas, Mauryas, Bahamanis, Vijayanagara, Chola etc. Raichur has been part of them all.
The city of Raichur falls under the doab, an area between two rivers flowing in the same direction, created by the rivers Krishna and Tungabhadra. Being a doab region, the land of this area is extremely fertile producing some major crops like cotton, oil seeds, groundnut, rice and more.
There were constant conflicts between the Vijayanagar and the Bahamani kingdoms over the control of Raichur doab which was the land between rivers Krishna and Tungabhadra. This area was fertile and rich in mineral resources.
The Raichur Doab is a Doab, in this case the triangular region of land in the southern Indian states of Telangana and Karnataka lying between the Krishna River and its tributary, the Tungabhadra River. The doab is named for the town of Raichur in the Raichur District.
Jun 21, 2024 · The Bijapur and Vijayanagara kings viewed it as a symbol of power and pride because of its strategic location to control the large Raichur Doab
Jan 2, 2019 · The Raichur Doab, the fertile tract of land between the Krishna and Tungabhadra rivers, existed as a natural boundary between these two great kingdoms, with wars often breaking out over...
The wedge of land between the rivers is known as the Raichuru Doab, after the city of Raichur. Bijapur and Yadgir districts lie to the north across the Krishna River. Bagalkot and Koppal districts lie to the west. Across the Tungabhadra lies Bellary District of Karnataka to the southwest and Mahabubnagar of Telangana to the southeast.
In this article, I bring together archaeological evidence for the social and spatial context of agricultural land use with a corpus of eleventh– sixteenth-century Kannada stone inscriptions from Raichur District (Karnataka) that document ritualised land donations.
Sep 1, 2022 · These data speak to the social and political significance of these activities and point to the historically complex character of landscape and place-making practices within the long-term social history of the Raichur Doab.
