books.google.co.in - The Vijayanagara rajas ruled a substantial part of the southern peninsula of India for over three hundred years, beginning in the mid-fourteenth century. During this epoch the region was transformed from its medieval past toward a modern colonial future. Concentrating on the later sixteenth- and seventeenth-century...http://books.google.co.in/books/about/The_New_Cambridge_History_of_India.html?id=OpxeaYQbGDMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe New Cambridge History of India