Water and Historic Settlements

List of figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Foregrounding water within the cultural landscape of Ellora-Khuldabad-Daulatabad - a methodological approach

Overview of historical developments in Ellora-Khuldabad-Daulatabad

Delineating the cultural landscape of Ellora-Khuldabad-Daulatabad

1 Water and settlements - historical development of the region vis-a-vis the political economy of the Deccan; networks of trade and patronage

Daulatabad - a layered historical narrative

Politics of patronage - the water cisterns of Ellora caves

Takaswami ashram - a modern reuse of a cave cistern

2 Water and sacrality - sacred geography and networks of pilgrimage

Sacred geography and the inflow of people and ideas

Water as the embodiment of fertility and healing powers

Calling the monsoon - the Panchami festival in Verul

3 Water and memory - community identities as the past remembered; memories as carriers of values, beliefs and practices

Re-covering "Malik Ambar ki Pipeline" - reconstructing the past through community memories

Malik Ambar: the slave who became a sultan

Imagining the region: locating community memories in space

Conclusion: A unique cosmopolitanism

Cosmopolitanism unfolding in the Deccan landscape

The Kitab-e-Nauras of Ibrahim Adil Shah: a kaliedoscopic vision of Deccan cosmopolitanism

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Index

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• Estudos regionais
• História da Ásia
• História social e cultural

Malik Ambar;Ellora Caves;Alauddin Khalji;Muhammad Bin Tughlaq;Buddhist Caves;Cave Complex;Pilgrimage Centres;Waterfall;Nizamuddin Auliya;Guru Nanak;Deccan Sultans;Sacred Pool;Table Topped;Millennium Ad;Tamil Nadu;Sanskrit Cosmopolis;Sacred Geography;Cascading Lakes;Balaji Temple;Fluvial Plains;Water Cisterns;Bund Wall;Colonial Administration;Iron Gates;Ahilyabai Holkar