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younger brother Ramalinganna Mummadi Muttarāju, a good and noble ruler who won the favour of the Padshah. Bhaskarayya's son became the ruler of only Vinukonda Pargana. His sons were Guntupalli Yallappa and Bhāskaruni Bachanna. Then the local history of the Pargana only is given.
When Mahammad Padshah succeeded to the throne of Golconda some trouble arose owing to the powerful Mannevāndlu who used to rob the people on the ways. The Padshah posted one Amin Muluk in the fort of Kondavidu making it thāne with certain forces in the śaka 1513, (A D.1591). In the following year he proceeded to Mullaguru which he destructed and renamed it as Aminābād after himself. He also constructed a tank named Muluk Cheruvu, and a palace Muluk Mahal. The lands of Mullaguru were transferred to the village Yabaluru in the neighbourhood. Thus he transformed the Hindu village Mullaguru into Aminabad and governed it from A.D. 1591 to A.D. 1599, (9 years.) During that period certain Sigilis Khān came here and constructed a village named Kutubshahpur after Mahammad Kutub Shah. Then Sultan Abdulla Tanisha Alamgir Pādshah succeeded to power. The following Amins successively governed this fort during his reign.
Firoj Khan...A.D. 1599 to 1602
Akhini Siddiqi Muluk Khan/Apsaras Khan A.D. 1602 to 1605
Ikhilis Khan and Guntupalli Muttarajayya A.D.1606 to 1655(1612?)
Mukut Khān A.D. 1613 to 1615
Jupalli Rangapatirāju A.D. 1616 to 1618
Till the period of Tanisha Alamgir, Killedars were posted in the fort and the Haveli villages were administered by those Killedars. Other Samuts were administred by the Amins, generally Hindus, under the Hyderabad Suba, as the place of Amāni māmliyat. This arrangement continued till A D. 1711.
In the year Sn 1122 Fasli (A.D. 1712), the Nawab Mubarak Khān Bahadar, of Dekkan suba, called for the Hindu chiefs and allotted the Murtujāmnagar Sarkar to three Jamindars, with 18 villages under the fort Kasba samut. The Jamindars were granted Sävaras (towards their personal maintenance.) When Asaf Jã hi Nizam-ul-Mulk Bahaddar became the head of the Suba, Balakrishna and others were appointed as Amins and they regularized the State income by giving the lands to the tenants on lease basis. During the time of Nasarjung Bahaodar, in the year A.D. 1750 the region of Kondavidu was given to the Faras (French). They ruled it for 7 years till A.D. 1757. Again when Nasarjung's younger brother Nizam Ali Khan became the Subedar (of Golconda), he appointed Raveba Khān as the Killedar
