Sultans of Deccan India, 1500–1700: Opulence and Fantasy - Navina Najat Haidar, Marika Sardar - Google Books

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 The vast Deccan plateau of south-central India stretches from the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the region was home to several major Muslim kingdoms and became a nexus of international trade — most notably…