Jun 18, 2022
The pride of the Vijayanagara empire and the supposed destructive Muslim conquest of Karnataka became an oft-repeated leitmotif of many Kannada novels of the time. The 1916 novel Kannadigara Karma Kathe (“The Fatal Story of Kannadigas”) by Galaganatha was typical of the genre. It described the fall of the Hindu Kannadiga empire of Vijayanagara at the hands of the Muslim Bahamani sultanate. The work's inspiration was the Marathi novel Vajaraghat, by Hari Narayan Apte, which describes the betrayal of Shivaji by Mughals.
Shivasundar, ‘The Long March of Hindutva in Karnataka’, India Forum