دانلود کتاب Water and Historic Settlements: The Making of a Cultural Landscape

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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-à-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
Bibliography
Index