The work explores the various steps taken by the British in the second half of the 18th Century to undermine the authority and power of Narasimha Opparow, zamindar of Nuzvid, one of the ancient and extensive native estates in Andhra. The moves in that direction met with stout resistance at every stage from the turbulent native chief and his followers. Following his arbitrary removal from all power there began an era pf confrontation and contest between the two ...
