A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c17.s1.21

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² Menezes assumed charge of the Viceroyalty on January 22, 1522. A short summary of Sequeira’s career is given in the interesting MS. volume called the *Livro das Fortalezas da India*, of which the text was written by Antonio Bocarro, and the numerous portraits and plans were drawn and coloured by Pero Barretto de Rezenda. The British Museum copy is in the Sloane Collection, and bears the number “197.”