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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sohoni, Pushkar, author.

Series:

Library of Islamic South Asia.

Library of Islamic South Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Asian--India.

Architecture, Asian.

Ahmadnagar (Kingdom).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 289 pages) : $b illustrations, maps, plans

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.

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 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. As well as offering a vivid depiction of sixteenth-century South Asia, this book revises understanding of the cultural importance of the Nizam Shahs and their place in the Indian Ocean world. It will be a vital primary resource for scholars researching the history of the medieval and early modern Deccan and relevant for those working in Art History, Islamic Studies, South Asian Studies and Archaeology."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Locating Architecture: Social History and Historiography of the Deccan

Chapter 2. Multiple Pasts: The Nizam Shahs of Ahmadnagar

Chapter 3. Urban Patterns, Water Supply Systems, and Fortification

Chapter 4. Palaces and Mansions

Chapter 5. Mosques: Piety and Prayer

Chapter 6. Tombs

Chapter 7. Miscellaneous Buildings

Chapter 8. Conclusion: End of an Old World

Appendix: Inscriptions

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350988446

1350988448

9781838609276

183860927X

9781838609283

1838609288

OCLC:

1114417629