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The Architecture of a Deccan Sultanate: Courtly Practice and Royal Authority in Late Medieval India

The Architecture of a Deccan Sultanate: Courtly Practice and Royal Authority in Late Medieval India

Sohoni, Pushkar

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Series: Library of Islamic South Asia

IslamArchitecture HistoryIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0755606795
ISBN13: 9780755606795
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Feb 20 2020
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The Deccan sultans left a grand architectural and artistic legacy. They commissioned palaces, mosques, gardens and tombs as well as decorative paintings and coins. Of these sultanates, the Nizam Shahs (r. 1490-1636) were particularly significant, being one of the first to emerge from the crumbling edifice of the Bahmani Empire (c. 1347-1527). Yet their rich material record remains largely unstudied in the scholarly literature, obscuring their cultural and historical importance. This book provides the first analysis of the architecture of the Nizam Shahs. Pushkar Sohoni examines the critical relationship between architectural production, courtly practice and royal authority in a period when the aspirations and politics of the kingdom were articulated through architectural expression. Based on new primary research from key sites including the urban settlements of Ahmadnagar, Daulatabad, Aurangabad, Junnar and the port city of Chaul, Sohoni sheds light on broader Islamicate ideas of kingship and shows how this was embodied by material artefacts such as buildings and sites, paintings, gardens, guns and coins.

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