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Within the framework of the increasingly imperial world of the early modern period, the Deccan Plateau of South India stands out as somewhat anomalous. From their emergence in the 1490s and until their submission to the Mughal Empire in 1636, the sultanates of Ahmadnagar, Bijapu…

Scholarship on the earliest known illustrated manuscripts produced in the sultanate of Golconda has tended to describe these objects as the products of the extension of a powerful influence from Iran over this small kingdom in the Deccan. While this assessment rightly acknowledg…

This study focuses attention upon how three Hindu kingdoms or samasthans managed to survive within the Muslim princely state of Hyderabad from the middle of the nineteenth century until their final dissolution. These kingdoms--Gadwal, Jatprole, and Wanaparthi--traced their origi…