Inscriptions of the Vijaynagara Rulers

This volume, the fifth in the ICHR series of Vijayanagara inscriptions, is thefirst part of a two-volume publication and contains 576 Tamil inscriptions of the pre-Krishnadevaraya period. The inscriptions throw much light on the significance of the Tamil area for the Vijayangara state. Its political organization there shows some peculiar features, being dominated, as it were, by the princely viceroys. The Tamil inscriptions also provide somewhat richer details than the Kannada and Telugu inscriptions do regarding the socio-economic conditions of the times.

Y. Subbarayalu is Researcher, Department of Indology, French Institute of Pondicherry. From 1983 to 2001, he was Professor at the Department of Epigraphy and Archaeology, Tamil University, Thanjavur and was subsequently appointed Co-ordinator for the Digital Historical Atlas of South India, French Institute of Pondicherry .                                                                       

S.Rajavelu is Associate Department of Maritime History and Marine Archaeology, Tamil University, Thanjavur. Earlier, he has served at the Epigraphy branch of the Archaeological Survey of India in Mysore and Chennai,