The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s13.1

c7.s13.1

1. The Empire of Vijayanagara (1336-1565) in the South was perhapes the most important seat of independent Hindu culture during the period of Moslem hegemony.⁴³ In any case, it emerged as an organ of Hindu sovereignty to withstand the inroads of the Moslem Turks into the South anticipating by three centuries the rise of the Marathas and the Sikhs as the bulwark of Hindu freedom against Moslem expansion.