Behind the Warangal fort moat project: the Kakatiya temple at Palampet on the World Heritage List

Background

One of the five Telangana projects the Centre cleared this week under the Urban Challenge Fund restores the Warangal fort moat and strengthens the Warangal fort and Ramappa tourism circuit. That circuit rests on a temple already on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The inscribed property is the Kakatiya Rudreshwara, or Ramappa, Temple, in the village of Palampet in Telangana, about 200 km north-east of Hyderabad. It was built by the Kakatiya dynasty, which ruled from 1123 to 1323 of the Common Era, and work on the sandstone temple began in 1213. UNESCO listed it under criterion one, as a masterpiece of Kakatiyan temple architecture, and criterion three, as exceptional testimony to the Kakatiya dynasty and its cultural traditions.