Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c16.2

c16.2

A description of the social life of a people in a particular age will be incomplete without an account of their architecture, sculpture and painting. The artistic tastes of the people of one century are not the same as those of the people of another; hence the style of the buildings of a particular period and the carvings, sculptures and paintings in them differ from those of another period. There have been different schools of architecture in India flourishing in the same period, and these wide differences are due to local peculiarities and local differences. At certain periods and in certain buildings, foreign influences are discernible. Broadly speaking, in the Vijayanagar period, two different schools of architecture were flourishing side by side—the Dravidian and the Indo-Saracenic—and the style of some of the Hindu monuments was influenced by the Indo-Saracenic style.