Silent Splendour

The palaces and religious architecture of the Deccan dynasties, from the Early Bahmani kingdom at Daulatabad, to the Asaf Jahi rulers of Hyderabad are described, with specially commissioned photographs.

Pratapaditya Pal is Visiting Curator of India, Himalayan, and Southwest Asian Art at The Art Institute of Chicago and former Senior Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). He is the author or coauthor of over fifty books, monographs, and exhibition catalogs. Amy Heller has been a member of a research team of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris since 1986. Her publications include "Tibetan Art "(1999).