Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c2.1

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The history of the Vijayanagar Empire occupies a period of well over three centuries (1336-1650 A.D). It marks the culmination of the achievements, political and cultural, of the people of South India in the days when they had not fallen under foreign domination. And the Empire at its greatest extent covered practically the whole of the modern Presidency of Madras, the Indian States in the area included, and extended for a time to Ceylon and parts of Burma. The outline of the history of this ‘Forgotten Empire’ was first presented by Robert Sewell in a celebrated book published in 1900.