Recent Advances in Vijayanagara Studies
Contents: 1. Distance administration under Vijayanagara/K.G. Krishnan. 2. Administrative divisions of the Vijayanagara state/Y. Subbarayalu. 3. Nayakkattanam and Sirmai in the Vijayanagara inscriptions in Tamil Nadu/Noboru Karashima. 4. Nayankara system in Andhra/B. Ranjendra Prasad and M. Bose Babu. 5. Vijayanagara city: an inscriptional study/Channabasappa S. Patil. 6. Land use and settlement in the Vijayanagara Metropolitan region: results of the Vijayanagara Metropolitan survey/Carla M. Sinopoli and Kathleen D. Morrison. 7. Noblemen's palaces in Hampi/Balasubramanya. 8. Centres of production and market system in Tamil country/P. Shanmugam. 9. Early modern trade and the "great field of commodities": reflections of the commodity process in travel literature to India/Janice Bailey - Goldschmidt. 10. Maintenance and repair of irrigation works in Southern Andhra/R. Soma Reddy. 11. History of music during Vijayanagara - Nayak phase/T.K. Venkatasubramanian. 12. Depiction of foreigners at Vijayanagara/Anila Verghese. 13. Virabhadra temple of Lepakshi: legends and history/K. Satya Murthy. 14. Two Harihara images from Hampi/K.M. Suresh. 15. Some rare forms of Siva and Vishnu/D. Kiran Kranth Choudary. 16. A bronze image of Bhuvaraha from Tirupathi/P.N. Naidu. 17. A portrayal of Vijayanagar by Rafiuddin Shirazi in Tadhkirattul Muluk/Parveen Rukhsana. Bibliography.
"The seventeen papers included in the present volume represent some of the important and absorbing topics related to the Vijayanagara Empire, which dominated the history of Peninsular India for more than 300 years from 1336.
In this anthology, scholars from abroad and India have written on various facets of Vijayanagara, in different parts of the empire.
The varied topics dealt by these scholars are: land use and settlement in the Vijayanagara Metropolitan region; reflections of the commodity process in the travel literature; Nayakkattanam / Sirmai; depiction of foreigners in sculptures; noblemen's palaces; nayankara system; inscriptional study of Vijayanagara city; some rare forms of Siva and Vishnu; distance administration; Bhuvaraha bronze from Tirupathi; Persian traveller Rafiuddin Shirazi's portrayal of Vijayanagar; Lepakshi Virabhadra temple; centers of production and market system; maintenance and repair of irrigation works; administrative divisions; Harihara images from Hampi and history of music.
This book, with 6 maps, 8 figures and diagrams, several tables and 24 plates, is an important addition to existing sources for the Vijayanagara empire. It is bound to be useful to the scholars and others interested in the political, economic, social and cultural history of India."
