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What light do inscriptions and accounts of European travellers throw on the antecedents and legacy of the administrative structure of the Vijayanagar Empire?

  • UPSC 1994
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Society and Culture

Vijayanagara's administrative apparatus is best read not as an original creation but as a link in a longer chain — epigraphic and travel evidence together show where it borrowed from earlier polities and where it fed forward into what followed its collapse.

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  • Inscriptions as a Window on Administrative Antecedents
  • European Travellers on the Amara-Nayaka Apparatus in Operation
  • From Antecedent to Legacy: The Post-1565 Fragmentation

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