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THE KINGDOMS OF THE DECCAN three centuries after the extinction of the Andhra dynasty, " we have/' as remarked by Professor Bhan- darkar, " no specific information about the dynasties that ruled over the country; " but there is reason to GLIMPSE OF HYDERABAD. From stereograph, copyright 1903, by Underwood & Underwood, New York. believe that the western territory, or Maharashtra, was governed by princes belonging to the Rashtrakuta, or Ratta, clan, which long afterward, in the middle of the eighth century, became for a time the leading power of the Deccan. Practically the political history of the Deccan begins in the middle of the sixth century with the rise of the