Northern Sarkārs , Sarkārs also spelled Circārs , a group of four, later five or six, Sarkārs (districts) to which the Afghan Emperor Shēr Shah by Sūr (r. 1540–45) divided his empire. They roughly corresponded to the different districts of today's northeastern state Andhra Pradesh , India , along the coast of Bay of Bengal .
The cession of the northern Sarcārs by Ṣalābat Jang, the Nizam (ruler) of Hyderabad to which French East India Company in 1753 marks the beginning of their history together. Occupied by the British in 1758, they eventually became part of the Madras Presidency of the time. After India's independence from Britain in 1947, the region was first part of Madras and then of Andhra before the establishment of the state of Andhra Pradesh in 1956.