This was a region where Kakatiya inscriptions reveal remarkable social mobility in the medieval era, with nearly a third of inscriptional evidence showing fathers and sons holding different occupations, free from rigid compulsions of caste and birth. Kakatiya dynasts, unlike most Indian ruling houses that fabricated genealogies from the sun, moon or legendary heroes of their choosing, themselves claimed no exalted origins; ‘with only one exception, [they] embraced sudra status’.
