A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar

This classic study offers a compact and comprehensive account of the much-neglected history of south india–treated here as a single geographical entity–up to the middle of the seventeenth century. The book is the earliest and best studies on south indian history the exhaustive narrative incorporates both the authors’ own researches as well as surveying the available material on the subject, tracing the political history, social life, commerce, religion, philosophy, literature, and arts of south india, the book is certain to remain popular among specialist and lay readers alike.