Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c11.35

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Other important towns in the Vijayanagar Empire were Bednur, Anegundi (compared by Nuniz with Lisbon), Adoni, Kurnool, Bezwada, Udaigiri, Seringapatam, Mysore, Trichnopoly, Tanjore, Madura, Devipatanam, Rameshvaram, Kanchi; and on the eastern coast Negapatam, St. Thome (Madras), Pulicat, Vellore and Malaipuram. The whole of the countryside was well-cultivated, which also shows that it was thickly populated. Portuguese accounts suggest that the Indians, unlike the Europeans, were relatively free from disease and pestilence.²⁴ Jan Van Linschoten also talks of the longevity of South Indians.²⁵