Social and Political Life in the Vijayanagara Empire (A.D. 1346 – A.D. 1646) v1.c9.s2.26

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Mr. Sewell, whose work has become classical on the subject, says: "The city of Vijayanagar, thus founded about the year 1335, speedily grew in importance and became the refuge of the out-casts, refugees, and fighting men of the Hindus, beaten and driven out of their old strongholds by the advancing Muhammadans"². But strangely enough Mr. Sewell contradicts himself in these words wherein he criticizes Buchanan's version of the legend: "But this story entirely leaves out of account the most important point. How could two brothers, flying from a captured capital, and a conquered kingdom, suddenly establish in a new country a great city and a sovereignty?"³