Power, Memory, Architecture (Contested Sites on India's Deccan Plateau, 1300 -1600)
By Richard M. Eaton & Phillip B. Wagoner.
Description
Language: EnglishPages: 395 (150 B/W Illustrations )About The bookFocussing 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 primary 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 ...
ISBN(s)
0198092210, 9780198092216
