The Journal of the American Oriental Society, October 1st, 1994
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" Hindu India as well as the archetype for the subsequent small kingdoms doms encountered by the British. At one time, Burton Stein also emphasized the continuities between Vijayanagara and previous periods. In his more recent Vijayanagara, however, it is the early modern features of this age that Stein s...
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