TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eaton,Richard Maxwell
AU  - Wagoner,Phillip B.
TI  - Power, memory, architecture: contested sites on India's Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600 
SN  - 9780199477692 (paperback)
U1  - 954.8 EAT 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New Delhi, India
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Architecture
KW  - India
KW  - Deccan
KW  - Deccan (India)
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - 16th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-379) and index; Chalukya emperors, Delhi sultans, 1000-1350 -- Temples and conquest, 1296-1500 -- Reviving the Chalukya imperium at sixteenth-century Vijayanagara -- Bijapur's revival of Chalukya imperium -- Shitab Khan and the restoration of Kakatiya cults and temples -- Qutb Shahi Warangal and the foundation of Hyderabad -- The military revolution in the Deccan -- The political functions of city gates
N2  - "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."--Provided by publisher.
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