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Rh where he was detained for nearly two years. After he was taken to Vizianagaram, the Kavitey and Rajam pergunnahs came under the Pusapatis till Chinna Ranga-Rao was restored to his ancestral Zemindari. He then fled to Samarlakota, where his aunt, Jaggamma, a sister of Mallammadevi, who was killed at the battle of Bobbili, was living with her husband, Niladri Rao Bahadur Garu, the then Rajah of Pittapur, who, for fear of Ananda Raz, had left Pittapur and lived at Samarlakota. Here Chinna Ranga-Rao stayed for a few days till some of the Velama Doralu and Telagas were called from Bobbili, and then went to Haidarabad, and stayed there for many years. By the time he succeeded in gaining the good-will of the Nizam, the authority of the English Company was established in the Northern Circars (1794). Then he was called back by the Collector of the Northern Division, to whom, it is said, he brought letters of recommendation from the Nizam, and was restored