Around this time of the year, 450 years ago, the destruction of the medieval city of Vijayanagara, in today’s Hampi, Karnataka, India, would have ended. According to records, the city of Vijayanagara ...

A stone inscription belonging to 15th century Vijayanagara empire was found in Nandanavana village of Byndoor taluk in Udupi district in Karnataka. Shruthesh Acharya, director of St Aloysius College ...

Intriguing stories are set in stone at the ancient site of Lepakshi, located in Hindupur district of Andhra Pradesh. Even though it is just under two hours (by road) from Bengaluru, not many people ...

The temple celebrating a river’s love story predates the empire. On the windy, rocky Hemakuta Hill, a leafless tree holds court before a tiny one-roomed shrine beside a green spring-fed pond. This is ...

HOSPET: Karnataka's 31st district Vijayanagara, named after the Vijayanagara empire of Raja Krishna Devaraya, officially came into being on Saturday. Carved out of mine rich Ballari district, ...

A book on Krishnadevaraya, the most popular ruler of the erstwhile Vijayanagara Empire, seems like a natural progression of things for sitar player and author Srinivas Reddy. Growing up with a keen ...

Most of what the history books in school told us was about battles fought — date and place, and the parties involved in the combat Like most, I remember little of the chapters of my history books. But ...

Karnataka's 31st district Vijayanagara, named after the Vijayanagara empire of Raja Krishna Devaraya, officially came into being on Saturday. Carved out of mine-rich Ballari district, Vijayanagara ...