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Vijayanagara : Warfare and the Archaeology of Defence investigates those features of the Vijayanagara site that allowed this greatest of Southern Indian capitals to function as a fortified citadel, resisting invaders for almost two hundred years, before finally succumbing after the catastrophic battle of January 1565. The volume systematically documents the surviving earthen and granite ramparts of the city that are spread over a vast urban area, incorporating ...
This volume showcases the fieldwork undertaken at the Hampi-Vijayanagara site during the 1990s by the international teams of the Vijayanagara Research project (VRP)and Vijayanagara Metropolitan Survey (VMS). Consisting of professional and student archaeologists and archietects from India, the USA, UK, Australia and other countries, these teams have over the years developed specialized techniques of "surface technology" to map and measure all visible ...