Abstract
One of the earliest writers on and admires of the Vijayanagara empire the Englishman Robert Sewell once expressed his opinion on the tradition of history writing (or the lack of it) in pre-modern India. In a series of lectures delivered before the east India Association in London in 1897 entitled “India before the British’ he observed that they only way of knowing what happened a hundred years ago was. Medieval times saw many changes in the art and culture of India. The cosmopolitan and philosophic traditions that were integral to the indict vision of life evolved with the charging times. Practically the last bastion in which ancient heritage of ideas continued as a living expression, through changed, was the Vijayanagara Empire.
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