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Discuss social dynamics in the Vijayanagara empire.

  • UPSC 2010
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Society and Culture

Vijayanagara society combined a rigid formal hierarchy of caste with pockets of genuine mobility, cosmopolitanism and female agency that unsettle any flat picture of unchanging tradition.

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  • Caste as the Organising Principle
  • The Royal Household and the Political Economy of Status
  • Women — Constrained Norms and Selective Mobility
  • Multi-Religious, Multi-Ethnic Cosmopolitanism of the Capital
  • Leisure, Consumption and Everyday Material Life

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