The Architecture of a Deccan Sultanate: Courtly Practice and Royal Authority in Late Medieval India, Hardcover/Pushkar Sohoni - I. B. Tauris & Company

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The Deccan sultans left a grand architectural and artistic legacy.
He has published in the books The Visual World of Muslim India and Garden and Landscape Practices in Pre-Colonial India and in the Journal of Deccan.
He previously taught at the University of British Columbia and has had fellowships at various institutions, including the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Max-Planck Institute and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
About the Author: Pushkar Sohoni is a Lecturer in South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This book provides the first analysis of the Architecture of the Nizam Shahs.
Yet their rich material record remains largely unstudied in the scholarly literature, obscuring their cultural and historical importance. 1347-1527). 1490-1636) were particularly significant, being one of the first to emerge from the crumbling edifice of the Bahmani Empire (c.
Of these sultanates, the Nizam Shahs (r.
They commissioned palaces, mosques, gardens and tombs as well as decorative paintings and coins.
The Deccan sultans left a grand architectural and artistic legacy