ABSTRACT
Oolconda, which was to have its greatest glory as the capital of the Qutb Shāhi Kingdom in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was founded as an outpost of the Kākatīya Empire in the twelfth century. The Kākatīyas, a Hindu dynasty whose capital was at Warangal, about ninety miles to the northeast, built a large mud fortress atop a nearly 400-foot granite hill at the site that was to become Golconda.
