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Kittur Karnataka was part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency before Independence. It shares a border with Maharashtra and is the corridor of migrant labourers during the sugarcane season.
A family of sugar barons, the sahukars have been running a fiefdom that stretches across political divides, defying attempts to unseat them from within their respective parties and without