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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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