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

by Pushkar Sohoni

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0755606795
• ISBN13: 9780755606795
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"