Apr 29 2022 to Apr 29 2022 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

From Konkan to Coromandel – Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture (Summer 2022)

From Konkan to Coromandel – Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture (Summer 2022). The fourth season of seminars and lectures co-organized by the Deccan Heritage Foundation, the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge, and the Bangalore International Centre, presenting the pioneering work of scholars in various cultural fields from both the Northern and Southern Deccan regions of India.

In this presentation, I argue that “Ḥaidarābād, the city of Ḥaidar,” was newly built by Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah in 1591 as an explicitly Shiʿi city. Connecting ritual action, Hyderabad’s urban topography, and the performance of Qutb Shahi kingship, we will explore the explicit relationship between religious architecture—what we might call space and place— and Shiʿi image-objects established Hyderabad as a Shiʿi Paradise in the Indian subcontinent.

Image credit (website & poster): Badshahi ʿAshurkhana, Hyderabad, India. Photo by Karen Ruffle, October 2015.

In collaboration with the Deccan Heritage Foundation, the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge, and the Bangalore International Centre.