A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c10.19

c10.19

Before proceeding to details we must shortly glance at the political condition of India in the first half of the fourteenth century, remembering that up to that time the Peninsula had been held by a number of distinct Hindu kingdoms, those of the Pândiyans at Madura and of the Cholas at Tanjore being the most important.