| ISBN |
0300175876 (pbk.) |
| 9780300175875 (pbk.) |
| Title |
Sultans of the south : arts of India's Deccan courts, 1323-1687 / edited by Navina Najat Haidar and Marika Sardar |
| Publisher |
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011 |
| Physical desc. |
xiv, 322 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps, plans ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia |
| Note |
"Many of the essays published in this volume were presented at the symposium 'The art of India's Deccan sultans', held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on October 24-26, 2008" -- T.p. verso. |
| Distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London. |
| CBL illustrations: p. 13, fig. 1 (In 07A.18); p. 227, fig. 10 (In 02.37v); p. 228, fig. 11 (In 02.53v). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-321). |
| Contents |
Foreword / Sheila R. Canby -- Preface / Navina Najat Haidar -- A social and historical introduction to the Deccan, 1323-1687 -- Section 1: painting and literary traditions. Farrukh Beg in the Deccan: an update -- The Kitab-i Nauras: key to Bijapur's golden age / Navina Najat Haidar -- The Pem nem: a sixteenth-century illustrated romance from Bijapur -- Deccani elements in early Pahari painting / John Seyller -- The courtly gardens of 'Abdul's Ibrahim nama / Ali Akbar Husain -- The multiple worlds of Amin Khan: crossing Persianate and Indic cultural boundaries in the Qutb Shahi kingdom / Phillip B. Wagoner -- Diabolic fancies and composite animals: Persian poetry and the grotesques of Deccani and Mughal painting / Michael Barry -- Section 2: carpets, textiles, and trade. Deccani carpets: creating a corpus / Steven Cohen -- The attribution and circulation of flowering tree and medallion design Deccani embroideries / Yumiko Kamada -- A seventeenth-century kalamkari hanging at the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Marika Sardar -- A ruler and his courtesans celebrate Vasantotsava: courtly and divine love in a Nayaka kalamkari -- Section 3: architecture, fortifications, and arms. Muhammad bin Tughluq and temples of the Deccan, 1321-26 / Richard M. Eaton -- The Solah Khamba Mosque at Bidar as a ceremonial hall of the Bahmanis / Helen Philon -- Fortifications and gunpowder in the Deccan, 1368-1687 / Klaus Rötzer -- Swords in the Deccan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: their manufacture and the influence of European imports / Robert Elgood -- Section 4: the Ibrahim Rauza. Indic themes in the design and decoration of the Ibrahim Rauza in Bijapur / George Michell -- The epigraphic program of the Ibrahim Rauza in Bijapur / Bruce Wannell -- The inscriptions of the Ibrahim Rauza Tomb / Abdullah Ghouchani and Bruce Wannell -- Schematic of the Ibrahim Rauza -- Postscript: continuities in the Deccan, from ancient times to the sultanate period. |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 02 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 07A |
| Art -- India -- Congresses |
| Deccani painting -- Congresses |
| Decorative arts -- India -- Congresses |
| Deccan (India) -- Antiquities |
| Deccan (India) -- History |
| Added name(s) |
Haidar, Navina Najat ed. |
| Sardar, Marika ed. |
