Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c7.s1.1

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Towards the latter half of the thirteenth century A.D., there occurred a series of events which set ablaze the latent energy of the Hindu Dharma in southern India. The land south of the Vindhyas, which had been left to itself for many centuries, was now suddenly confronted with a problem the magnitude of which the Hindus of southern India realized after eight and sixty years of humiliation. But at the end of that period, the smouldering forces of Hinduism suddenly swept away the growing menace, and allowed Hindu society to run on its own course for two hundred and fifty years of uninterrupted history. This is how what has been till now known as the Forgotten Empire of Vijayanagara came into being in southern India.