About the Book: The Architecture of a Deccan Sultanate
The Deccan sultans left a grand architectural and artistic legacy. They
commissioned palaces, mosques, gardens and tombs as well as decorative paintings
and coins. Of these sultanates, the Nizam Shahs (r. 1490-1636) were particularly
significant, being one of the first to emerge from the crumbling edifice of the
Bahmani Empire (c. 1347-1527). Yet their rich material record remains largely
unstudied in the scholarly literature, obscuring their cultural and historical
importance. This book provides the first analysis of the architecture of the
Nizam Shahs. Pushkar Sohoni examines the critical relationship between
architectural production, courtly practice and royal authority in