The area to the north of Surur Nagar Road, where gardens belong to Wazil Ali Badshah, Raja Sheo Raj Bahadur, and Makta Ganesh Rao covering spaciously are visible on the map. Raja Sheo Raj Bahadur was the famous banker and Jagirdar of Hyderabad State. And, there was a system of land tenure in the Telangana region, under which the govt land varying in size, either from small holdings to a whole village or group of villages, were given on a fixed rent to bring the new lands under the cultivation. The holder was known as Maktadars, were locally powerful landlords. So, such land obviously was called as Makta land and in due course, came into existence that calling any area part of Makta land along with the holder name.
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