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Vijayanagara Empire

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Vijayanagara Empire Summary
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Vijayanagara, the "City of Victory," the greatest of all medieval Hindu capitals, was founded in 1336 CE by Hukka and Bukka, two princes of a local family, the Sangama. This dynasty rapidly extended its control over the whole of southern...
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Vijayanagar
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Former Hindu kingdom, southern India, south of the Krishna River. Founded in 1336, it became the greatest empire of southern India and for more than two centuries served as a barrier against Muslim raiders from the north. It was an important centre of...
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Vijayanagar : Hindu Terms
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(‘the city of victory’) the last stronghold of Hinduism against the Muslim conquest, a kingdom founded by a Hindu confederacy in South India around 1336 which withstood the numerous onslaughts of Islamic forces for almost 300 years and was...
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Vijayanagara Empire Information
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The Vijayanagara Empire (Kannada: ವಿಜಯನಗರ ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ, Telugu: విజయనగర సామ్రాజ్యము) was a South Indian empire based in the Deccan. Established in 1336 by Harihara I and his brother Bukka...


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The Journal of the American Oriental Society
Vijayanagara. (book reviews)
10/01/1994: 1,014 words, approx. 3 pages
The Vijayanagara empire of the mid-fourteenth through mid-seventeenth centuries was south India's last large state system prior to the British colonial takeover. The significance of Vijayanagara in south Indian history is manifold: it has been perceived as the final great era of "traditional"...
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Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific
Fields of Victory: Vijayanagara and the Course of Intensification. (book reviews)
03/22/1997: 1,024 words, approx. 3 pages
Kathleen D. Morrison. Contributions of the University of California Archaeological Research Facility No. 53. Berkeley: University of California, 1995. vii + 201 pp.; 67 illustrations, bibliography. Softcover. In a classic 1965 study, Ester Boserup questioned our generally Malthusian thinking about the relationship...
 


 

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