Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 LOCATING FRAGMENTS: BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DECCAN The Deccan: a brief history Hindustan and the Deccan as diverse and unified landscapes Visual Culture of the Deccan Sultanates Continuities and ruptures: Purity and Hybridity of Architecture in the Deccan ­ CHAPTER 2 MULTIPLE PASTS: THE NIZAM SHAHS OF AHMADNAGAR The Nizam Shahs Architectural patronage under the Nizam Shahs Drawing boundaries: Historiography of the Nizam Shahs CHAPTER 3 CONSTRUCTING SOCIETY: SOCIETY AND ARCHITECTURAL KNOWLEDGE Methods to study architectural remains Guilds and movements of craftspeople recovered Sultanate architecture and regional variations Extra-regional Architectural Programs and Building Typologies Global Architecture and Local Construction Urgency to study, research and recover CHAPTER 4 LAYING THE LAND: PATTERNS OF URBAN SETTLEMENTS AND THEIR DIS-TRIBUTION Urban Design and Settlements Junnar Daulatabad Ahmadnagar Chaul Parenda Sindkhed Raja Urban Systems: Water Supply and civic buildings Military Design and Fortification CHAPTER 5 DESIGNS OF GRANDEUR: PALACES AND MANSIONS Palaces and Mansions Farah Bakhsh Bagh Hasht Bihisht Bagh Manzarsumbah Palace near Bhatavadi (Kalawantinicha Mahal) Architecture of Palaces for the Sultan CHAPTER 6 OTHER ARCHITECTURAL PROGRAMS Mosques Tombs Hammams, caravansarais and miscellaneous buildings CHAPTER 7 MATERIAL CULTURE BEYOND ARCHITECTURE AND SETTLEMENTS Visual space Ahmadnagar paintings Coins of the Nizam Shahs Texts Other contributions Cultural production and technological innovation CHAPTER 8 CONCLUSION: END OF AN OLD WORLD BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Documents and analyses the architecture and material artefacts from the Nizam Shahs, one of the early modern Deccan sultanates.

About the Author

Pushkar Sohoni is a Lecturer in South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. 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. 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 Studies and South Asian Studies. He received his doctorate in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania.