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...Fritz Lehmann Sufis of Bijapur, 1300–1700: Social Roles of Sufis in Medieval India . By Richard Maxwell Eaton , Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1978 . xxiv, 358 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... incidence of revolt by deshmukhs in Bijapur at the same time, see Alam, pp. 86–88. 47 Khafi Khan, II, pp. 630–643 provides a detailed narrative of Pap Rai's rise and fall. Official Mughal news reports from Hyderabad verify and corroborate the essential accuracy of the chronicle in regard to Pap...

...Dirgha Jibi Ghimire Harbingers of Rain: Land and Life in South India . By A. R. Vasavi . Study of Bijapur District in Karnataka. New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1999 . xiv , 178 pp. $ 19.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS...

... (saint) worship, with the dargah or tomb cult replacing the khanqah or hospice as the basic institution. While land grants did purchase the political loyalty of the grantees, it is important to note that the Sufis survived the extinction of the Bijapur state and remain active to the present: land...

... in this paper. The successor Sultanates formed in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, consequent on the decline of Bahmani power, continued to maintain close links with Iran. According to Rafi-ud-din Shirazi, the founder of the Bijapur Sultanate, Yusuf Adil Khan (r. 1490 1510) had himself been...

... rulers of Golconda and Bijapur to the south of his empire; to the "imperatives" of Indian history, which see every strong ruler of north India as desirous of ruling the whole subcontinent; or to a desire to crush the Maratha revolt. The "imperatives of Indian history" interpretation requires a brief...

... The transition was often indirect. Many moved from the sultanates of Golconda and Bijapur to the Maratha, Mughal, or even Mysore services before joining the Nizam's service. Some moved from the Marathas to the Mughals to the Nizam, or from the Mughals to the Nawab of Arcot to the Nizam. 48...

... was in the Deccan whither Aurangzib himself had moved in 1681 with the P. Hardy is Reader in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 257 258 P. HARDY intention of overcoming the Marathas and annexing the Muslim sultanates of Bijapur and Golkonda. Pearson aims to show...

... settlement, that "over the next forty years (1636-76) this unchallenged settlement contributed greatly to the peace and prosperity of Bijapur, Golconda, and the Mughal provinces of the Deccan." In fact, the settlement lasted for barely twenty years: in 1656, the Mughals invaded Golconda, and in the next year...

... greatly to the peace and prosperity of Bijapur, Golconda, and the Mughal provinces of the Deccan." In fact, the settlement lasted for barely twenty years: in 1656, the Mughals invaded Golconda, and in the next year, Bijapur. I would have also preferred a better description of "the Telugu Society" than...

... of India's population was not something that began with British colonial rule, for he sees the Mughals as producing their own ethnographic documents that combined poetry and visuality to serve political ends. Painting is also explored by Keelan Overton to demonstrate how images from Bijapur and Lucknow...

... into the sixteenth century. The second section explores the fictive associations that sixteenth-century Vijayanagara and Bijapur, which were quite different primary centers, forged with the architecture, genealogy, and titles of the Kalyana Chalukya empire of some four centuries earlier. The goal in both cases...

... of the court painters of Ahmadnagar (chap. 1), Bijapur (chaps. 3 - 6 ) , and Golconda (chaps. 7 10) from the sixteenth to the late seventeenth century. Essentially visual in his approach, he leads the reader into the sensuous rhythms and highly mannered world of these richly worked miniatures. The reader may...

..., generally lucid account of the complex and largely unsuccessful relations between the Portuguese and their Dutch and English rivals and with their Indian neighbors, especially the Mughals, the Marathas, and the rulers of Ahmadnagar, Bijapur, and Kanara. The second chapter examines the basic features...

..., the bulbous dome flanked by four small minarets prominent in the skyline, as in the case of Malika Jahan Begum's mosque, may have as effectively stated the vitality of Islam to the subjects of seventeenth-century Bijapur as did a towering cylindrical shaft to the ninth-century population of Tulinid Egypt...

... on textiles, metalwork, and stone objects. As does Michell, Zebrowski approaches the material dynastically, and sees paintings and elegant objects as reflective of the patron's personality, in most cases the monarch's personality. The portraits of Ibrahim II of Bijapur have a dreamy other-worldly quality...

... essay on the changing trends in Maratha historiography, the author goes on to describe the geopolitics of Maharashtra and the participation of Maratha warriors in the Deccan sultanates of Ahmadnagar and Bijapur. Only after this lengthy, and helpful, setting of the scene, does Gordon discuss...

... garden of Fatehpur Sikri (1570s early 1580s) (p. 200). Given the author s ambition toward completeness, it is also surprising that she did not include a discussion of the adoption of the Iranian qanat (underground water channel) system at the cities of Ahmednagar, Bijapur, and Burhanpur. In her...

... demonstrates north India s interactive, and at times colluding, literary and political spheres. This work is the single most useful and reliable volume on medieval north Indian cultural history available today and in many ways complements Richard Eaton s Su s of Bijapur (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University...