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The prolonged conflict between the Vijayanagara Kingdom and the Bahmani successor states was influenced less by cultural factors, and more by strategic and economic considerations. Comment
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- The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Political History
The Vijayanagara–Bahmani conflict ran for roughly two centuries, from the near-simultaneous founding of both states in the 1330s–40s to the Battle of Talikota (1565), and the question of what actually drove it — a clash of religious civilisations, or a contest over land, revenue, and trade — has divided older and more recent historiography.
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- The Three Contested Zones
- Strategic and Military Considerations
- Economic Considerations
- Dynastic Rivalries and Political Opportunism
- Weighing the Cultural Factor
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