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# A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India

History of Vijayanagara from inscriptions and chronicles, with full translations of the Portuguese chronicles of Domingo Paes and Fernão Nuniz.

- **Language:** English
- **Date:** 1845–1925 CE
- **Author:** [Robert Sewell](https://indike.org/pramana/person/sewell)
- **Extent:** 1,878 passages, 145,495 words
- **Text:** complete digital text
- **Source:** archive.org · 1st ed., London 1900; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by Gemini 3.8… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Robert Sewell †1925); published before 1931: public…

## Contents

- [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c1) — 29 parts
- [c2 Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c2) — 24 parts
- [c3 Chapter X](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c3) — 11 parts
- [c4 Chapter XIV](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c4) — 18 parts
- [c5 Chapter I](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c5) — 11 parts
- [c6 Chapter VII](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c6) — 16 parts
- [c7 Chapter XVI](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c7) — 3 parts
- [c8 Chapter XVIII](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c8) — 3 parts
- [c9 Chapter XX](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c9) — 3 parts
- [c10 Chapter XXII](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c10) — 69 parts
- [c11 Chapter II. Origin of the Empire (A.D. 1336)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c11) — 43 parts
- [c12 Chapter III. The First Kings (A.D. 1336 to 1379)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c12) — 115 parts
- [c13 Chapter IV. Growth of the Empire (A.D. 1379 to 1406)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c13) — 44 parts
- [c14 Chapter V. Deva Râya I. (A.D. 1406 to 1419)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c14) — 181 parts
- [c15 Chapter VIII. Close of the First Dynasty (A.D. 1449 to 1490)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c15) — 66 parts
- [c16 Chapter IX. The First Kings of the Second Dynasty (A.D. 1490 to 1509)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c16) — 48 parts
- [c17 Chapter XI. The Siege and Battle of Raichûr, and Close of Krishna's Reign (A.D. 1520 to 1530)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c17) — 21 parts
- [c18 Chapter XII. The Buildings, Works, and Inscriptions of Krishna Deva](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c18) — 17 parts
- [c19 Chapter XIII. The Reign of Achyuta Râya](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c19) — 267 parts
- [c20 Chapter XVII. The Story of Barradas (1614)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c20) — 53 parts
- [c21 Chronicles of Paes and Nuniz](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c21) — 3 parts
- [c22 Appendices](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c22) — 12 parts
- [c23 Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sewell-1900.c23) — 47 parts

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