<p>Situated at the Eastern Dharwar craton in India, the Nalgonda area consists of Neoarchean granitoid plutons variably deformed and intruded by few mafic rocks. The principal rock types are granites, gneisses, migmatites, mylonites and synplutonic mafic and felsic dykes. Controversial chronology has been proposed for the deformation phases and the granite emplacement in the Dharwar craton in general and some specific areas of that craton in particular. Some authors proposed two deformation phases for the Dharwar craton and indicated the granite emplacement during the second deformation phase, while others were talking of about five deformation phases. This paper aims to contribute in the understanding of the petrography and deformation phases of the Nalgonda area and the granite emplacement conditions using field, petrographic and structural analysis. The granitoids underwent four deformation phases. The first deformation phase is marked by foliation in gneiss, immediately followed by the second phase of deformation marked by upright to recumbent folds with NE verging indicating thrusting towards the NE. The third phase is heterogeneous simple shear, in sinistral and dextral context marked by voluminous granitic magmas intruding into the gneisses substratum. The magmatic to mylonitic structures of Nalgonda granitoids are mostly parallel to the solid-state deformation features recognized in the granites and migmatites, indicating the emplacement of the granites during the D₃ transcurrent tectonics. The D₃ phase in the Nalgonda area corresponds to the regional D₂ deformation phase recorded in the Dharwar craton. The fourth phase is a brittle stage responsible for the emplacement of synplutonic mafic dykes and faults. Throughout the Nalgonda area, NNE trending dextral and NNW trending sinistral shears define a conjugate set of strike-slip shear zones. The E-W to NW-SE oblique compressional regime was responsible for the syntectonic emplacement of the granites along NW-SE corridor.</p>