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    The architecture of a Deccan sultanate : courtly practice and royal authority in late medieval India / Pushkar Sohoni.

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    • Title:The architecture of a Deccan sultanate : courtly practice and royal authority in late medieval India / Pushkar Sohoni.
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    • Author/Creator:Sohoni, Pushkar, author.
    • Published/Created:London : New York ; I.B. Tauris, 2018.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Architecture--India--Maharashtra--History.
      Monuments--India--Maharashtra--History.
      Maharashtra (India)--Buildings, structures, etc.
      Ahmadnagar (Kingdom)--Buildings, structures, etc.
      Ahmadnagar (Kingdom)--Social life and customs.
      Ahmadnagar (Kingdom)--History.
    • Description:xxvii, 289 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 22 cm
    • Series:Library of Islamic South Asia ; 2.
    • Summary: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 an 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.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781784537944 (hardback)
      1784537942 (hardback)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Locating Architecture: Social History and Historiography of the Deccan
      Deccan: A Brief History
      Hindustan and the Deccan as Diverse and Unified Landscapes
      Visual Culture of the Deccan Sultanates
      Continuities and Ruptures: The Purity and Hybridity of Architecture in the Deccan
      Methods to Study Architectural Remains
      Guilds and Movements of Craftspeople Recovered
      Sultanate Architecture and Regional Variations
      Extra-regional Architectural Programmes and Building Typologies
      Global Architecture and Local Construction
      Urgency to Study, Research, and Recover
      2. Multiple Pasts: The Nizam Shahs of Ahmadnagar
      Drawing Boundaries: Historiography of the Nizam Shahs
      Nizam Shahs
      Paintings
      Coins of the Nizam Shahs
      Literature at the Court
      3. Urban Patterns, Water Supply Systems, and Fortification
      Urban Design and Settlements
      Junnar
      Daulatabad
      Ahmadnagar
      Chaul
      Parenda
      Sindkhed Raja
      Urban Systems: Water Supply and Civic Buildings
      Military Design and Fortification
      4. Palaces and Mansions
      Farah Bakhsh Bagh
      Hasht Bihisht Bagh
      Manzarsumbah
      Palace near Bhatavadi (Kalawantinicha Mahal)
      Architecture of Palaces for the Sultan
      5. Mosques: Piety and Prayer
      Soneri Mosque in the Bara Imam Kotla (Ahmadnagar)
      Agha Bihzad or Kari Masjid (Ahmadnagar)
      Damdi Mosque (Bhingar)
      Mosque of Sanjar Khan (Dharur)
      Mahdavi Mosque (Rohankheda)
      Mahdavi Mosque (Fathkheda/Sakharkheda)
      Kali Mosque (Ahmadnagar)
      Qasim Khan's Mosque (Ahmadnagar)
      Kamani Mosque (Ahmadnagar)
      Kamani Mosque (Shivneri)
      Jami' Mosque (Chaul)
      Dilawar Khan's Mosque (Rajgurunagar/Khed)
      6. Tombs
      Bagh Rauza
      - Tomb of Ahmad Nizam Shah I (Ahmadnagar)
      Saudagar Gumbaz (Junnar)
      Sarje Khan's Tomb
      - Do Boti Chira (Ahmadnagar)
      Tomb of Changiz Khan (Ahmadnagar)
      Tomb of Bava Bangali
      Tomb of Salabat Khan
      Rumi Khan's Tomb
      Tomb Attributed to Ahmad Nizam Shah I (Khuldabad)
      Shah Sharif's Tomb (Ahmadnagar)
      Tomb of Haji Hamid (Ahmadnagar)
      Bhonsale Memorials (Verul)
      Dilawar Khan's Tomb (Rajgurunagar/Khed)
      Lakhuji Jadhav's Tomb (Sindkhed Raja)
      Malik Ambar's Tomb (Khuldabad)
      7. Miscellaneous Buildings
      Water System of Ahmadnagar
      Waterworks at Manzarsumbah
      Ab Anbar and Badgir at Savedi
      Hammam at Chaul
      Shahi Hammam at Daulatabad
      Dam near Daulatabad
      Khufiya Bavdi
      Caravanserai at Chaul
      Chini Mahal
      Chitakhana.
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