Hyderabad, Golconda

SPECIFICATION: Publisher : Jaico Publishing House By : Marika Sardar (Author) Binding : Paperback Language : English   Edition : 2015 Pages :  108 pages Size : :  14.5 x 0.7 x 19.8 cm ISBN-13 :  978-8184956948 DESCRIPTION: This guidebook is the first to showcase the magnificent monuments of the twin cities of Golconda and Hyderabad, the successive capitals of the Qutb Shahi sultans and the Asaf Jahis, the latter usually referred to by their title as the Nizams. Golconda's massive fortifications and defensive gateways, as well as its decaying palaces, pavilions, stores and barracks give the best possible idea of one of India's wealthiest and grandest royal cities in the 16th-17th centuries. These buildings may be compared with the courtly and civic monuments in Hyderabad, many of them sponsored by the Nizams who ruled this part of India up to the middle of the 20th century. Marika Sardar provides the essential historical background for all these vestiges, together with their relig