CONTENTS

Introductory Remarks

Revisiting the Term “Sultanate” - Alka Patel

The Architecture of the Sultanates: A Historical Prologue - Abha Narain Lambah

Centralizing the Margins: Commemorative Architecture in the Indus Valley - Holly Edwards

The Many Delhis: Town Planning and Architecture under the Tughluqs (1320–1413) - Jutta Jain-Neubauer

The Sharqis of Jaunpur: Inheritors of the Tughluq Legacy - Abha Narain Lambah

Building a Legacy: Sher Shah Sur’s Architecture and the Politics of Propaganda - Catherine B. Asher

From Province to Sultanate: The Architecture of Gujarat during the 12th through 16th Centuries - Alka Patel

The Sultanate of Malwa - Michael Brand

Problems of Reconstructing Bengali Architecture of the 14th–16th Centuries - Pika Ghosh

The Charminar as Chaubara: Cosmological Symbolism in the Urban Architecture of the Deccan - Phillip B. Wagoner

Index