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Succ Invaders.: N, Above in Which The 1343. To He Rudra Combination The Prom

The document discusses the founding of the Vijayanagar Empire in southern India in 1343 CE. It summarizes that: 1) A Hindu prince from Warangal allied with other Hindu rulers to drive the Muslim rulers out of the Deccan plateau. 2) They founded the city of Vijayanagar and began conquering the surrounding Muslim-controlled areas, reducing Warangal and expelling Muslims within a few months. 3) This marked the overthrow of Muslim rule in southern India and paved the way for the establishment of the Vijayanagar Empire, which was founded by Harihara I and his brother Bukka.

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Succ Invaders.: N, Above in Which The 1343. To He Rudra Combination The Prom

The document discusses the founding of the Vijayanagar Empire in southern India in 1343 CE. It summarizes that: 1) A Hindu prince from Warangal allied with other Hindu rulers to drive the Muslim rulers out of the Deccan plateau. 2) They founded the city of Vijayanagar and began conquering the surrounding Muslim-controlled areas, reducing Warangal and expelling Muslims within a few months. 3) This marked the overthrow of Muslim rule in southern India and paved the way for the establishment of the Vijayanagar Empire, which was founded by Harihara I and his brother Bukka.

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~ssion, as it "'ott1d appear, occurred the succ


, above,·in which a cotnbination of ff indu~
ve babk the invaders. Here is Firishtahts ac
!. 1 He is speaking of"the. year A.H. 744, 1

6. A.O. 1343. to May 15, 1344, and he saJ


of Rudra Deva or·warangal, went prival
Ltged him to join ~ combination of Hindu~
~ out the Mllha111Illadans from the Dakbar
sented, and Krishna Naik promised, wbe
complete, to raise all the Hindus of Telli
at their·head .
:hen built the city of Vijayanagar,2 raise
u began. Warangal, then in the hands a
was reducedj and its governor, Imad-ul-M
a.ta.bad or Devagiri. The two chietS then in,
he Malabar and Kanara countries to join.t
!S seized the whole of the Dakhan and expelle
here~ "so that within ~ fpw m onths Muhan
vm<.:u wu1~1uv ;, 1.1.u '-a. •. J ic:u u u, , tne otner:
J.::,

:eked and destroyed by the Muhammadc


tated, the traveller fbn Batuta refers to thi
f .. Harai)' 01 " llarlb'. in or about the yeaJ
1llated b)' Nuniz, according to which Haril
t1:g the ~even years of his reign, be true, his
ti befofe 1344, because in that year, as we
•· Krishna, son of Pratapa Rudra of War◄
yanagar, and, in concert with its king and
Ha princes of Dvarasamudra, drove bac
s:1.1ed for a time part of the Southe1 n Da
'."ed the way for the overthrow of the sovere
±..e Vindhyas. I take it, therefore, that Har
year A, o , 1343.
r ~e1gned quietly, I know of only one stateJ
· mscription of Samgama II. recording a ~
d to ?elc1w, states that Ifariht1ra I. "defeatec
>s th is only all udes to the fhct that NiuhaIID
ndon his hold on the country. . .
. . · · s· b
ls Harihara' .· rot 1er, Bukka I. ("Bnr ::1r;:.i n" \ ,
l" -

h e !Pl o-r, ,,.,.


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