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Power, memory, architecture : contested sites on India's Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600 / Richard M. Eaton, Phillip B. Wagoner.

Van Pelt Library DS485.D25 E28 2014
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Eaton, Richard Maxwell, author.
Wagoner, Phillip B., 1955- author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Architecture.
Deccan (India)--History--To 1500.
Deccan (India).
Deccan (India)--History--16th century.
Architecture--India--Deccan.
India--Deccan.
Physical Description:
xxvi, 395 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Contents:
Section I Orientations
1 Chalukya Emperors, Delhi Sultans, 1000-1350 3
The Height of Chalukya Prestige: Vikramaditya VI, 1076-1126 4
A Successor State of the Chalukyas: The Kakatiyas of Warangal, 1163-1323 15
The Persian Cosmopolis and the Delhi Sultanate, 1296-1347 18
The Delhi Sultanate's Successor States: The Bahmanis and Vijayanagara, 1347-1500 27
2 Temples and Conquest, 1296-1500 39
Pillalamarri, 1309 41
Devagiri, 1313-18 42
Bijapur, 1320 44
Bodhan, 1323 48
Warangal, 1323 52
Rajahmundry, 1324 56
Kalyana, 1326 57
Sholapur, c. 1323-47 61
Manvi, 1406 63
Kondapalli, 1478 65
Section II Kalyana and the Chalukya Legacy
3 Reviving the Chalukya Imperium at Sixteenth-century Vijayanagara 77
The Character of Chalukya Architecture 78
Sixteenth-Century Geopolitics and the Renewal of Interest in Kalyana 82
Aravidu Appropriation of Chalukya Titles and Genealogy 85
Chalukya Reuse in Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Architecture 89
The Cult of Bhuvaneshvari and Her Neo-Chalukya Shrine 98
Moving a Chalukya Step-Well to the Vijayanagara Capital 106
Stages of Chalukya Reuse at Vijayanagara 113
4 Bijapur's Revival of the Chalukya Imperium 125
Bijapur's Citadel and the State's Consolidation 126
The Temple-Mosque of Bankapur and the State's Expansion 134
Kalyana Fort and the State's Maturation 146
Section III Warangal and the Kakatiya Legacy
5 Shitab Khan and the Restoration of Kakatiya Cults and Temples 165
The Rise of Shitab Khan 166
Shitab Khan and the Prize of Warangal, 1504 170
From Cult Icon to Dynastic Talisman: Peregrinations of the Svayambhu Shiva Linga 173
The Movable and the Immovable 182
Warangal's 'Venkateshvara-gudi': The Panchaliraya Temple of Shitab Khan 183
The Humiliation of Draupadi, and of Shitab Khan's Wives 191
6 Qutb Shahi Warangal and the Foundation of Hyderabad 203
The Indianization of an Immigrant Persian Family 204
Golconda's Multi-ethnic Élite: Westerners, Deccanis, Nayakwaris, and Niyogis 208
Qutb Shahi Warangal: Form and Meaning 214
The Founding of Hyderabad: Form and Meaning of the Millennial City 220
Section IV The Raichur Doab in the Age of Gunpowder
7 The Military Revolution in the Deccan 241
The Raichur Doab as a Contested Zone, 1294-1520 242
Gunpowder Technology in the Deccan, 1450-1520 245
The Battle of Raichur, 1520 251
The Evolution of Gunpowder Weaponry and Fortifications, 1520-1600 254
The Battle of Talikota, 1565 268
A 'Military Revolution' in the Deccan? 271
8 The Political Functions of City Gates 288
Gateways and the 'Symbolic Appropriation of the Land': Raichur's Kati Darwaza 289
Gateway as Palace: Krishna Raya's Naurangi Darwaza 300
Gateway Diplomacy after the Siege of Raichur 310.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0198092210
9780198092216
OCLC:
869791481
Publisher Number:
99958905721

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