Naldrug Village

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Naldrug Village, 1908

This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Village in the Tuljapur taluk of Osmanabad District, Hyderabad State, situated in 17° 49' N. and 76° 29' E. Population (1901), 4,111. The fort of Naldrug is situated above the ravine of the Bori river, and is one of the best fortified and most pictur- esque places in the Deccan. Before the Muhammadan invasion in the fourteenth century, it belonged to a local Raja, probably a vassal of the Chalukyas. It fell to the Bahmani dynasty, who built the stone fortifications. After the division of the Bahmani kingdom in 1482, it was seized by the Adil Shahis of Bijapur, and was a bone of contention between them and the Ahmadnagar Sultans. All Adil Shah in 1558 not only added to the fortifications, but erected a dam across the Bori, which afforded a constant supply of water to the garrison.