A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c16.29

c16.29

But the very next year (1347) witnessed the birth of the Muslim sultanate of the Deccan which made the danger from Islam to the Hindu culture of the South much more immediate and constant. Harihara and his brothers had not entered upon their work a day too soon. In the rest of this chapter we shall trace the rise and history of the Bāhmani sultanate, reserving the further history of Vijayanagar for the next.