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954.792035092 GAE Sayajirao of Baroda, the prince and the man | 954.79205 MEH Maximum city : Bombay lost and found | 954.792300222 BHO Bombay : a contemporary account of Mumbai | 954.8 EAT Power, memory, architecture : contested sites on India's Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600 | 954.8 KAN Lords of the Deccan : Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas | 954.802 NIL Illustrated history of South India : from prehistoric times to the fall of vijaynagar | 954.802 SUB South India under the Cholas |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Focusing on India's Deccan Plateau, this book explores how power and memory combined to produce the region's built landscape, as seen above all in its monumental architecture. During the turbulent sixteenth century, fortified frontier strongholds like Kalyana, Warangal, or Raichur were repeatedly contested by primay centres--namely, great capital cities such as Bijapur, Vijayanagara, or Golconda. Examining the political histories and material culture of both primary and secondary centres, the book investigates how and why the peoples of the Deccan, in their struggles for dominance over the secondary centres, promoted certain elements of their remembered past while forgetting others. The book also rethinks the usefulness of Hindu-Muslim relations as the mater key by which to interpret this period of South Asian history, and proposes instead a model informed by both Sanskrit and Persian literary traditions. Further, the authors systematically integrate the methodologies of history, art history, and archaeology in their attempt to reconstruct the past, as opposed to the standard practice of using one of these methodologies to the exclusion of the others."
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