A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c15.43

c15.43

We have some further information on the affairs of Kulbarga during the reign of Muhammad Shâh in the writings of the Russian traveller Athanasius Nikitin, but it is very difficult to fix the exact date of his sojourn there. Nikitin was a native of Twer, and set out on his wanderings by permission of the Grand Duke Michael Borissovitch, and his own bishop, Gennadius. This fixes the time of his start so far that it must have taken place subsequent to 1462, and the author of the "Bombay Gazetteer," re Poonah, assigns the period 1468 to 1474 as that of Nikitin's stay in India.