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By William J. Jackson

The Vijayanagara Empire flourished in South India among 1336 and 1565. Conveying the intensity and creativity of Hindu non secular and literary expression in the course of that point, Vijayanagara Voices explores the various contributions made through poets, singer-saints, and philosophers. via translations and discussions in their lives and instances, Jackson provides the voices of those cultural figures and displays at the matters in their period, having a look specifically into the brilliant pictures of their works and their legends. He examines how those photographs exhibit either religious insights and actual reviews with memorable candour. The reviews additionally increase interesting questions on the empire's origins and its reaction to Muslim invaders, its 'Hinduness', and purposes for its final decline. Vijayanagara Voices is a publication approximately styles in background, literature and existence in South India. by way of studying the culture's archetypal screens, via realizing the tradition in its personal phrases, and by way of evaluating linked pictures and concepts from different cultures, this booklet deals specific insights right into a wealthy and influential interval in Indian history.

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