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

"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 crumb...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sohoni, Pushkar (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2018.
Colección:Library of Islamic South Asia ; 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Author Biography; Editorial; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Locating Architecture: Social History and Historiography of the Deccan; The Deccan: A Brief History; Hindustan and the Deccan as Diverse and Unified Landscapes; The 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 TypologiesGlobal Architecture and Local Construction; The Urgency to Study, Research, and Recover; 2. Multiple Pasts: The Nizam Shahs of Ahmadnagar; Drawing Boundaries: Historiography of the Nizam Shahs; The 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 BaghHasht 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); Jamiʼ 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
  • DōBōti Chirā (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; The Water System of Ahmadnagar; The Waterworks at Manzarsumbah
  • Āb Anbār and Bā dgir at SavediHammam at Chaul; Shahi Hammam at Daulatabad; The Dam near Daulatabad; Khufiya Bavdi; The Caravanserai at Chaul; Chini Mahal; Chitakhana; Conclusion: End of an Old World; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography