The Medaram Jatara reached its frenzied crescendo on the full moon night.
But even as the devotees thronged the gadde in the small village to mark a medieval war, the corpus of historical information about the festival remains patchy.
“There is very little information about the war which led to the retreat of the tribes into the forest. But biographical evidence suggests that the war happened during the period of Rudradeva-I (1158-1195 AD) and not during Pratap Rudra’s time,” says historian S. Haragopal who has been doing extensive research on Telangana’s history.
