This scholarly volume presents the history of India’s south-central Deccan region in a dynamic period—the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries—that witnessed great political and cultural transitions. Medieval Hindu kingdoms gave way to Muslim courts and new forms of sovereignty in the Indian subcontinent. The authors, however, eschew a simple religious binary for a broader civilizational view of the players and their cultural values, further advancing their already established research and analytical methods. Whereas previous studies generally focused on courtly capitals and primary urban centers, such as Golconda and Bijapur, this book sets out to foreground the Deccan’s lesser-known frontiers of action and contested areas, particularly Kalyana, Raichur, and Warangal.

One of the most interesting approaches of the book is to view the conquest of the Deccan by the Delhi Sultanate in the early fourteenth century as an encounter between a Sanskrit “cosmopolis” (a broad social network united by language and political...

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