Vasundhara filliozat biography of william
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Posted on: 20 April 2019
Interview:
When the South was one
By Monica Jha
Published in FountainInk - March 15, 2018
Historian Vasundhara Filliozat on distortions of history, and how the Karnataka empire ruled over most of south India and fought Muslim invasions.
Vijayanagara was one of the most dazzling of the capitals of mediaeval India.
Vasundhara filliozat biography of william
The ruins of the city have awed travellers and scholars alike. But a historian, a woman who lives in Paris, says an empire by the name Vijayanagara never existed. She has created an uproar but insists the correct name is Karnataka empire.
Vasundhara Filliozat has been working on the history of Karnataka since the early 1960s.
She was born in Haveri in Dharwad district as the fifth child of Sanskrit and Kannada scholar Pandit Chennabasavappa Kavali. She studied history, Indian epigraphy and French at Karnataka University, Dharwad before she got a scholarship to study theatre in France.
After two years of studying theatre, she retur