The New Cambridge History of India: Vijayanagara

by Burton Stein

Book Overview

The Vijayanagara rajas ruled a substantial part of the southern peninsula of India for over three hundred years, beginning in the mid-fourteenth century, and during this epoch the region was transformed from its medieval past towards a modern colonial future. Concentrating on the later sixteenth- and seventeenth-century history of Vijayanagara, Burton Stein details the pattern of rule established in this important and long-lived Hindu kingdom, which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521619254
• ISBN13: 9780521619257
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"