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Robert Sewell.
A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India.
Published Shannon: Irish University Press, 1972 (unabridged facsimile reprint of the 1900 Swan Sonnenschein edn.)
ISBN 0716521377.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; coloured tops.
Printer: Irish University Press.
Size: 144x220x32mm.
Page count: text xxii,427pp; plates 15pp; 3 foldouts.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has no dustjacket; some mild scuffs on the boards, some mild bumps and rubs on the corners, otherwise looks in good order; previous owner’s inscription on the front endpaper, but the main text appears to be free of marking.

This item £14.50
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Weight without packaging: 729g.

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Presents translations of two Portuguese chronicles together with an extended historical introduction, describing the kingdom of Vijayanagar from its foundation in the fourteenth century to its destruction in the sixteenth.

Contents:
Sewell, History;
Narrative of Domingo Paes (ca. 1520);
Chronicle of Fernão Nuniz (ca. 1535).
Appendices: Diamonds; Wealth of the Dakhan in the 14th c.; Tables for reference.

Illustrations: 15 monochrome plates
Maps & plans: 3

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: 9
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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