This bibliography presents a list of titles that help the reader to understand the kingdom or empire of Vijayanagara. It presents literary sources from the Vijayanagara period, ranging from complete translations to abbreviated summaries. Two types of general works on the Vijayanagara kingdom may be distinguished: one that attempts to cover all major aspects of the history of the kingdom and another that treats some specific aspects over the entire history. Sewell's contributions to the opening of Vijayanagara history are better represented in other of his works upon which other early historians substantially drew and through which the first generation of Indian historians of the kingdom became familiar with modern, European historical methods. The defeat of Vijayanagara and the sack of the city in 1565 by the confederacy of sultanate forces ushered in a period of extended chaos and decline that is treated both generally and in terms of Tamil country by R. Sathianathaier, Tamilaham in the Seventeenth Century.