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Do you agree that convergence of political vacuum and impact of Islamicate culture and polity in peninsular India has much to do with the growth of Vijayanagara kingdom?

  • UPSC 2018
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Political History

The founding and rapid rise of the Vijayanagara kingdom in 1336 is best explained not by a single cause but by the coincidence of two distinct processes — a collapse of existing peninsular authority and the availability of new Islamicate political-military templates in the same period.

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  • The Political Vacuum: Collapse of the Established Deccan-South Indian Order
  • The Islamicate Contribution to Vijayanagara's Institutional Growth
  • Assessing the Weight of Each Factor

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