Vijayanagara: Battle Of Talikota

Ithihasa India History Podcast

14-05-2020 • 25 mins

This episode is about the infamous Battle Of Talikota, which was the beginning of the end for the Vijayanagara empire. Talikota was Vijayanagara’s Waterloo moment and a watershed event in both the Deccan & Indian history.

Vijayanagara’s majestic capital was sacked beyond redemption in the year of 1565. Today you know it as Hampi, a UNESCO world heritage site in the state of Karnataka, India.

Never perhaps in the history of the world had such havoc been wrought and wrought so suddenly on so splendid a city; teeming with a wealthy and industrious population in the full plentitude of prosperity in one day and on the next seized, pillaged and reduced to ruins amid scenes of savage massacre and horrors beggaring description - Naipaul