Parodi, Laura

The visual world of Muslim India: the art, culture and society of the Deccan in the…

by Hutton, Deborah, Eaton, Richard Maxwell, Kruijtzer, Gijs, Sohoni, Pushkar, Philon, Helen, Overton, Keelan, Parodi, Laura, Khalidi, Omar, Michell, George, Sardar, Marika, Simpkins, Robert Alan, Rotzer, Klaus, Weinstein, Laura, Tucker, Rebecca, Haidar, Navina Najat

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Selection of papers presented at a conference 'Art, Patronage and Society in the Muslim Deccan from the Fourteenth Century to the Present Day' (4-6 July 2008) at St. Antony's College, Oxford, with support from the John Fell Fund, Barakat Trust and Alessandro Bruschettini.

Golconda is a historic city on the Deccan plateau, situated at 17.38° N latitude and 78.40° E longitude, in the ancient region of Tilangāna; it is today part of Hyderabad, the capital of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Its name possibly derives from Golla-koṇḍa (“shepherds’ …