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Roots or Routes? -- Networks, Translation, and Transculturation -- Things and Texts -- Polyglot Frontiers and Permeable Boundaries -- Gifts, Idolatry, and the Political Economy -- Heteropraxy, Taxonomy, and Traveling Orthography -- Cultural Cross-dressing -- Prestigious Imitation -- Fractal Kingship and Royal Castoffs -- The Raja's Finger and the Sultan's Belt -- Accommodating the Infidel -- Sunni Internationalism and the Ghurid Interlude -- From King of the Mountains to the Second Alexander -- Homology, Ambiguity, and the Rule of Sri Hammira -- Looking at Loot -- Signs of Sovereignty -- Looting and Difference -- Trophies and Transculturation -- Remaking Monuments -- Taxonomies, Anomalies, and Visual Pidgin -- Rupture and Reinscription -- Noble Chambers and Translated Stones -- Patrons and Masons -- Markets, Mobility, and Intentional Hybridity -- Palimpsest Pasts and Fictive Genealogies -- A World within a World -- Monuments and Memory -- The Fate of Hammira -- Conclusion : In and Out of Place -- Appendix : Principal Dynasties and Rulers Mentioned. |
