TY - JOUR T1 - From Defended Settlements to Fortified Strongholds: Responses to Gunpowder in the Early Modern Deccan JF - South Asian Studies Y1 - 2015 A1 - Sohoni, Pushkar KW - Architectural History KW - Deccan KW - Defensive Architecture KW - Early Modern KW - Fortification KW - Settlement Patterns AB -

Architectural responses to improved gunpowder technologies reached a conclusion in the sixteenth-century Deccan. Instead of constructing heavier defences, most urban settlements were disaggregated into military and administrative strongholds vis-à-vis civilian and mercantile cities by the seventeenth century. Changing economic and social conditions allowed for this separation of urban functions. The response to military revolutions was therefore not at the scale of individual buildings, but instead reconfigured the pattern of settlements in the region.

VL - 31 SP - 111 - 126 UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02666030.2015.1008818 CP - 1 J1 - South Asian Studies ID - AZ-CF-175737 M3 - 10.1080/02666030.2015.1008818 SN - 0266-6030 ER -