History · Sources of Medieval Indian History
UGC NET June 2013 History
Who calls the political economy of the Vijayanagar regime of the sixteenth century as feudal?
AN. Karashima ✓ Correct
BBurton Stein
CK.V. Ramesh
DN. Venkataramanayya
Correct answer: (A) N. Karashima — N. Karashima calls the Vijayanagar political economy of the sixteenth century feudal, so the answer is N. Karashima.
Explanation
★N. Karashima calls the Vijayanagar political economy of the sixteenth century feudal, so the answer is N. Karashima.
★He was a prominent Japanese historian of South India.
★His main interest lay in the agrarian and social history of the Tamil and Vijayanagara regions.
★Using inscriptions, he argued that the Vijayanagara order had feudal features.
★Burton Stein, by contrast, applied his segmentary state model to Vijayanagara.
★The debate over the nature of the Vijayanagara state is central to its study.
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