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; ...