A group of college students from Bengaluru visits a village in the Krishna-Tungabhadra doab. Among huge boulders they see the ruins of Vijayanagara: broken gateways, long stone walls and halls with carved pillars. Local elders tell them tales of a great city that was sacked in a battle and later deserted. Their teacher explains that scholars rebuilt the history of this empire by putting together such local tales with ruins, inscriptions and written records. She adds that a British officer working for the English East India Company was the first to survey the site and draw its map.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Harihara and Bukka
The empire whose ruins the students see is the Vijayanagara Empire, which contemporaries called the karnataka samrajyamu; two brothers, Harihara and Bukka, founded it in 1336.
NCERT (2026-27): “2. Rayas Nayakas and Sultans “While historians use the term Vijayanagara Empire, contemporaries described it as the karnataka samrajyamu.” |