Away on the N.W. of the Dekhan are the races speaking Konkani and Gujerati, to the N.E. are the Gond and the Uriya races, and the Kandh or Kondh. To the extreme south are races speaking Canarese, Tamil, and Maleala, none of all of whom, however, are reckoned as populations of Dekhan proper. Besides, there are several un civilised savage or semi-savage races, as the I3hil aud the Koli of the N.IV., the Khand, the Juanga, the Sowra of the N.E. the Ramusi of the Dau latabad and Hyderaljad provinces, the Dher, Mang, idhar, Pariah, Holar, Eskar, who are mostly predial slaves, the Bernd near the Kolhapur state, the Beder population in the Raichore Doab, the homeless wandering IVadara, Upara, Kathadi, Dumar, Komwa, Yerkala, Banjara, the cowherd and shepherd Dhangar and Kurubar, the hill and forest Badaga, Erular, Male Arasar.
It was not till A.D. 1471 that the Mahomedans of the Dekhan extended their arms to the Northern Circars. At this time the Uriya raja of what is now the Ganjam country, died without issue, and his adopted son, Mungul Rai, and his cousin Humner (?) became competitors for the succession.
During Malnnud's time (in 1512), the Bahmani dominion was dismembered, and five Delthani kingdoms set up. The country now known as the Northern Circars fell under the dominion of the Kutub Shahi state, whose capital was Gol conda, near Hyderabad. That portion south of the Godavery became tributary without difficulty ; but Wistna Doe or Gajapati, a powerful prince of Orissa, who ruled in Rajamundry and Chicacole, withheld submission, and it was not tin A.D. 1571 that his pretensions were lowered. The Northern Circars was occupied by the British in 1766. The British now rule over the Ceded Districts of Bellary, Cuddapah and Kurnool, over tho S. Mahratta country, 'part of ancient Daulatabad; and they have assigned to them all Bemr. The Nizam holds Hyderabad; and a fewsmall chiefs rulo in the Central Provinces, in Gondwana, along the lino of the Godavery, in Orissa, and near the Kistna river.—Elliot ; Ann/. Ltd. Adm. xi. p. 243 ; Rennell's 3fentoir.