The Architecture of a Deccan Sultanate: Courtly Practice and Royal Authority in Late Medieval India

13 November 2020

The first event part of the From Malabar to Coromandel webinar series organised by the Deccan Heritage Foundation in collaboration with the Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge and the His Highness Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar Foundation, held on November 13th, 2020.

A discussion on Dr. Pushkar Sohoni’s (IISER, Pune) latest book The Architecture of a Deccan Sultanate: Courtly Practice and Royal Authority in Late Medieval India.

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Speaker(s)

Pushkar Sohoni

Pushkar Sohoni trained as an architect and then studied Indian architectural history, specialising in Islamic traditions of the Deccan. He is author of Aurangabad, with Daulatab... Read More

Marika Sardar

Marika Sardar is Curator at the Aga Khan Museum, having previously worked at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar; the San Diego Museum of Art; and the Metropolitan Museum o... Read More

Vivek Gupta

Dr Vivek Gupta is Postdoctoral Associate in Islamic Art (2020-2023) at the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge where he is also affiliated with Jesus Colleg... Read More