Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c13.s4.26

v1.c13.s4.26

In a letter dated 30th of August 1611, Antoine Vico gives to us a gruesome account of the manner in which the poor people were made to pay for the negligence of the feudatories. "In that case, (the king of) Bisnagar, comes or sends one of his generals, at the head of hundred thousand men, to make them pay all the arrears with interest. On these occasions, which are frequent, it is again the poor people who pay for the fault of their princess; all the country is devastated, and the people are plundered or massacred . . . "⁵