Jagtial — The Telangana District With India's Only Star-Shaped Fort

Jagtial is one of Telangana's youngest districts — born in 2016 — but it sits on very old land. It hides the only star-shaped fort in Telangana, built around 1747 under the Nizams and, by legend, named after two French engineers. Add a 500-year-old hilltop Hanuman temple at Kondagattu, the temple town of Dharmapuri on the Godavari, and some ...