Anegundi in Karnataka’s Koppal district finds mention in the epic of Ramayana. It was originally called Kishkinda (where Ramayana’s monkey kings, Vaali and Sugreeva had their kingdoms).Today, it is famous for handicrafts made out of banana fibres, found in abundance thanks to the acres of banana plantations found in the area. Now it is a hub of banana fibre crafts. Artisans have found ingenious ways to process discarded stems from the banana plant to extract a versatile and flexible fibre. The fibre from the banana stems are transformed into works of art.

The word Ane, means elephant and gundi, means gorge. It is believed that the gorge formed by the Tungabhadra river is the height of an elephant and therefore it was easy to bathe them there. Elephants of the royal army of the mighty Vijayanagara kingdom were also stabled here.