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Evaluate the accounts of foreign travellers about the Vijayanagar Empire.

  • UPSC 2017
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Society and Culture

Travellers like Conti, Abdur Razzaq, Paes, Nuniz and Barbosa are valuable but uneven witnesses, not neutral recorders.

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