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Architecture of a Deccan Sultanate, The: Courtly Practice and Royal Authority in Late Medieval India - Couverture souple

Sohoni, Pushkar

 
9780755606795: Architecture of a Deccan Sultanate, The: Courtly Practice and Royal Authority in Late Medieval India
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0755606795 ISBN 13 : 9780755606795
Editeur : I.B. Tauris, 2020

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Pushkar Sohoni is a Lecturer in South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

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Éditeur
I.B. Tauris
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0755606795
ISBN 13 
9780755606795
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
318
Coordonnées du fabricant
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