The hill cultivators of the Eastern Ghats behind Palasa, Parvathipuram and Palakonda, on the Ganga edge: the Ganga kings treat them as hill people to be bought off or beaten.
No chief is known by name.
Who holds it
- Title
- Savara village chiefs; no names known
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Confidence
- low
Hill peoples of the Ganjam to Srikakulam hills.
Overlord
Eastern Ganga claim
How things stand that morning
Self-governing, tribute irregular. The Savara hills run on north into Gajapati and Ganjam in Odisha, which is nin's ground under the Ganga kings.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: No source we read gives the political life of this people in 1200; this is general knowledge, flagged thin. The Project's rule is that powers who ruled without castles are real powers, so the people is carried.
Sources and studies
- General knowledge of the medieval Deccan (Bhandarkar, Altekar, Sastri, B. R. Gopal, Suryanath Kamath): from memory, not re-read
- Wikipedia: Eastern Ganga dynasty (read this session)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.