Ghanpur is a

Mandal A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

Wanaparthy district Wanaparthy district is a district in the Indian state of Telangana. Its headquarters is Wanaparthy. The district shares boundaries with Gadwal, Mahabubnagar, Narayanpet, Nagarkurnool districts and with the state boundary of Andhra pradesh. ...

Telangana Telangana (; , ) is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian subcontinent, Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India b ...

. It is also known as

Khilla Ghanpur Khilla Ghanpur is a historic place equidistant, 25 km, from Mahabubnagar and Wanaparthy towns of Telangana state, India. It is 111 kilometers away from Hyderabad city. History Khilla Ghanpur or Ghanpur, Wanaparthy district was ruled by Recherl ...

.It was a part of Mahbubnagar district earlier to the formation of new districts in Telangana.

Mandal Parishath

ZPTC member

Institutions

* Zilla Parishad (Boys) High School * Zilla Parishad (girls ) High School * Ravindra Vidyanikethan * Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya * Govt. Junior College * Goutham concept school * T S model school (Donthikunta Thanda)

Villages

The villages in Ghanpur mandal include: * Agaram * Almaipally * Anthaipally * Appareddipally * Ghanpur * Jangamaipally * Kamaluddinpur * Malkapur * Mamidimada * Manajipet * Md.hussainpally * Parvathapur * Rukkannapally * Salkalapur * Shapur * Solipur * Thirumalaipally * Upperpally * Venkatampally

History

This place was named after

Kakatiya The Kakatiya dynasty (IAST: Kākatīya) was an Indian dynasty that ruled most of eastern Deccan region comprising present day Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, and parts of eastern Karnataka and southern Odisha between 12th and 14th centuries. Th ...

king Ganapathi Deva in 13th Century as Ganapuram, eventually it is spelled as Ghanpur. Since it has a Khilla,

Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language ** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode S ...

for ''fort'', it popularly known as

. Prior to the construction of the fort and naming this village as Ganapuram, there was a small village present with name Naginenepalli in 13th Century.

References

{{reflist Mandals in Wanaparthy district