Monthly Archives: December 2014

2014 in review

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 50,000 times in 2014. If it were a … Continue reading →

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Tallikota- The End of Vijayanagara

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Ratnakar Sadasyula

In my last two posts, I had been looking at the decline of  Vijayanagara, post  Krishnadeva Raya, and Rama Raya’s tactics of playing off one Bahmani Sultan against another. As I had mentioned earlier, this tendency to play off one … Continue reading →

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