Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India's Deccan Plateau

by Phillip B Wagoner and Richard M. Eaton

Book Overview

Most studies of the history of the early modern Deccan focus on struggles between the region's primary centers, that is, the great capital cities such as Bijapur, Vijayanagara, or Golconda. This study, by contrast, examines the political histories and material culture of smaller, fortified strongholds both on the plains and atop hills, the control of which was repeatedly contested by rival primary centers. Exceptionally high levels of conflict over...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199477698
• ISBN13: 9780199477692
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 9.5"