Kamarupa and Assam At the time of the advent of the Muslims in Bengal in the early thirteenth century, the Brahmaputra valley was parcelled out into a number of independent principalities, a... Read more
The Kingdom of Orissa Orissa was consolidated into a powerful kingdom by Anantavarman Choda Ganga during his long reign of more than seventy years (c. 1076-1148). It appears from several ins... Read more
The Empire was divided for administrative purposes into several provinces (rajya, mandala, chavadi), which had again subdivisions like venthe, nadu, sima village and sthala in the Karnataka... Read more
Art and Literature The Vijayanagar Empire has to its credit brilliant cultural and artistic achievements. The Emperors were patrons of all languages- Sanskrit, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada, and... Read more
Economic Condition of the Vijayanagar Empire It is clear from foreign accounts, and also other sources, that unbounded prosperity prevailed in the Vijayanagar Empire. Agriculture flourished... Read more
The haughty conduct of the Vijayanagar army kindled the long-standing, though smouldering, hostility of the Sultanates of the Deccan against Vijayanagar, and all, with the exception of that... Read more
Narasimha Saluva had the prudence to charge his trusted general, Narasa Nayaka, who claimed descent from a dynasty which ruled over the Tuluva country, with the responsibility for the admini... Read more
The Hindu Kingdoms-The Vijayanagar Empire Political History The early history of Vijayanagar is still shrouded in obscurity. Sewell, after referring to several traditional accounts about the... Read more
The Five Sultanates of the Deccan Five separate Sultanates arose in the Deccan, one after another, on the break-up of the Bahmani kingdom. These were known, after the titles of their founder... Read more
Ahmad was succeeded peacefully by his eldest son under the title of Ala-ud-din II. Soon after his accession, ‘Ala-ud-din II suppressed a rebellion headed by his brother Muhammad, who w... Read more
