Co-founder of Vijayanagara
Harihara ↗
The Karnataka district history associates Harihara and his brother Bukka with the foundation of Vijayanagara in 1336. This is regional context; it does not identify him as Gurramkonda Fort’s builder.
ANTIQUE GURRAMKONDA / PEOPLE
Lives in the historical record
Profiles limited to documented local and regional connections. No invented portraits or family relationships.
Co-founder of Vijayanagara
Bukka Raya ↗
Bukka appears with Harihara in the account of Vijayanagara’s foundation. No personal construction commission at Gurramkonda has been verified here.
Vijayanagara ruler
Venkata II ↗
Accounts of his reign connect the campaigns of Matla Ananta and Kasturi Rangappa with Gurramkonda. His reign is also evidence that Vijayanagara continued after Talikota.
Military commander
Matla Anantaraju ↗
The historical synthesis describes Matla Ananta’s siege and recovery of Gurramkonda during Venkata II’s reign. The precise year is not fixed in this archive.
Military commander
Kasturi Rangappa ↗
Associated with the campaigns against opposing forces in the narrative of Venkata II. The archive distinguishes his wider campaign role from Matla Ananta’s siege of the fort.
Cuddapah Nawab
Abdul Nabi Khan ↗
An important figure in the early eighteenth-century political history of the Cuddapah region. His association does not establish that the entire Gurramkonda fort was newly built in 1714.
Military figure associated with Gurramkonda
Mir Ali Raza Khan ↗
Mir Ali Raza Khan was Tipu Sultan’s maternal uncle: Sheikh Ali identifies his sister Fakhr-un-Nissa as Tipu’s mother. The Chittoor gazetteer records his possession of Gurramkonda, burial there and succession by his son Kamar-ud-Din. The 1781 and 1782 death accounts remain unresolved; the family relationship does not establish a palace or tomb-building commission.
Mysorean administrator and commander
Mir Qamruddin ↗
Bhandare identifies him as Mir Raza Ali’s son and Tipu’s officer responsible for Gurramkonda and Cuddapah. The Chittoor gazetteer names Kamar-ud-Din as his father’s successor at Gurramkonda. Munro describes his ancestors as hereditary killadars there before their connection with Hyder Ali; the beginning and continuity of that tenure remain unestablished.
Ruler of Mysore
Hyder Ali ↗
Gurramkonda formed part of the struggles between Hyder’s Mysore and the Marathas. His son Tipu recovered the fort in the chronology followed by Henderson.
Ruler of Mysore
Tipu Sultan ↗
Associated with the recovery of Gurramkonda and the Zafarabad mint. His mother Fakhr-un-Nissa was Mir Ali Raza Khan’s sister, giving him a maternal-family connection with the place. This does not establish Gurramkonda as her birthplace or residence. The loss of territory in 1792 and his death in 1799 remain distinct stages in the region’s political history.
French officer in the Nizam’s service
Michel Joachim Marie Raymond ↗
The Cuddapah gazetteer entry connects regional revenues to Raymond’s French contingent. The precise extent of his Gurramkonda connection remains under research.
Ceded Districts administrator
Thomas Munro ↗
Munro was the first principal collector of the Ceded Districts after the cession of 1800. In correspondence reproduced by Bradshaw, he describes Cummer ul Din Khan’s ancestors as hereditary killadars of Gurramkonda and notes the family’s kinship with Tipu’s. The letter is an administrative assessment, not a complete family register.