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Anantapur gave less trouble to quiet than the rest of the ceded country. In other portions of this, especially on the Cuddapah side, the poligars already referred to, who had survived all the changes of government which had followed so quickly upon one another's heels, frequently required the argument of regular troops to reduce them to order. But in the country which now makes up Anantapur there were none of these chieftains who were formidable enough to give any real trouble. Of the eighty poligars in the ceded country only fourthose of Anantapur, Nadimidoddi (in Anantapur taluk), Kammalapádu (near Vajra-Karúru), and ' Talmurlah ' (apparently Tariméla)lived within it, and they were all of them at that time insignificant persons. The poligar of Kammalapádu was obstreperous and therefore was expelled and the other three were given allowances in land or otherwise and deprived of control over their villages.

On only one occasion after the cession was there any open resistance to the British authority. In 1804 a conspiracy was formed to seize Gooty and Adóni forts and to establish in that part of the country Kudrit Ullah Khán, son of Basálat Jang, the former jaghirdar of Adóni. The plot failed miserably, the only outcome of it being the attack on Kónakondla, in Gooty taluk, which is referred to in the account of that place in Chapter XV below.