Don’t romanticise Vijayanagara as the ‘last Hindu empire’—it has a side you don’t know about

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The Vijayanagara Empire often conjures up images of tragedy and ruin. It is often referred to as the “last Hindu empire”. But this takes attention away from its transregional, multilingual reality—and the effects that this had on older social structures. Anirudh Kanisetti explains how Vijayanagara’s martial and governing classes inadvertently created chaos and crisis in 15th century Tamil Nadu, eventually giving rise to the thriving South Indian societies we are familiar with today.

Sources:
Karashima, Noboru. History and Society in South India: The Cholas to Vijayanagar. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Karashima, Noboru. Ancient to medieval: South Indian Society in transition. Oxford University Press, 2010.
Ramaswamy, Vijaya. "Vishwakarma craftsmen in early medieval peninsular India." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 47, no. 4 (2004): 548-582.
Subbarayalu, Y. South India Under the Cholas. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Stein, Burton. The New Cambridge History of India: Vijayanagara. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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