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008			201218b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9780199477692
082			_a954.8 _bEAT
100			_aEaton, Richard Maxwell
245			_aPower, memory, architecture : contested sites on India's Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600
260			_bOxford University Press _c2014 _aNew Delhi
300			_axxvi, 395 p. _bill., map _c25 cm
365			_b795.00 _cINR _d00
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"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."
650			_aArchitecture India Deccan
650			_aDeccan India History To 1500
650			_aDeccan India History To 1600 century
650			_aIndia Deccan History
710			_aWagoner, Phillip B.
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