Fall of Warangal (Kakatiya)

Timeline

1. 1321Warangal Fort · DeccanAfter consolidating Delhi, Ghiyath al-Din Tughlaq ordered Ulugh Khan to attack the Kakatiya, whose tribute had long been unreliable. In 1321 the Delhi army besieged Warangal's ring of stone walls but was forced to withdraw because of the monsoon, overextended supply lines, and sorties by the defenders; Prataparudra temporarily kept his independence.
2. 1323Warangal · DeccanAfter reorganizing, Ulugh Khan marched south again, using fuller siege equipment and a blockade to cut Warangal off from outside help. The defenses collapsed under the sustained siege and the capital fell. The Kakatiya court, temple wealth, and administrative archives fell into Delhi hands, and the center of the most important Hindu kingdom in the Telugu country was occupied.
3. 1323On the road from Warangal to Delhi · IndiaPrataparudra II was captured and taken toward Delhi; traditional accounts say he killed himself or died of illness on the way. Whatever the details, the Kakatiya royal line was broken. Delhi placed Warangal and its surroundings under direct military administration; former Kakatiya nobles either submitted or fled, and the eastern Deccan entered a period of sultanate rule.
4. 1323–1324Telangana and the Andhra coast · DeccanAfter Warangal's fall, Delhi's power reached the lower Godavari-Krishna region and the coastal port zone, and surviving polities like Kampili faced greater pressure. This conquest gave Muhammad bin Tughlaq the territorial basis for his later move of the capital to Daulatabad and his attempt to control north and south from the Deccan interior.