In this section each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet. S1. Vijayanagara or 'city of victory' was the name of both a city and an e

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The first sentence S1 introduces Vijayanagara as both a city and an empire. Sentence S logically follows S1 by stating when the empire was founded (fourteenth century). Sentence P describes the geographical extent of the empire during its peak (heyday), which naturally follows its foundation. Sentence R shifts the timeline to its decline, stating that the city was sacked and deserted in 1565. Sentence Q continues the chronological progression, mentioning its ruin in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries and introduc