In the study of medieval and early modern South Asia, archaeologists, historians, and art historians have studied selected monuments in depth or surveyed regions for monumental ruins and other features, but have less commonly studied their datasets as a group to infer processes of socio-political change. Using the example of the Golconda kingdom of India’s Deccan plateau, this study describes the evidence of the kingdom’s physical presence across a wide area, and shows how by combining the distribution across space with evidence of changes over time, aspects of the kingdom’s socio-political evolution can be inferred, from the development of the capital to the kingdom’s changing relationship with its more distant peripheries. Some overlooked monuments, when placed in this context, critically suggest the early formative stages of central political authority; others point to a growing culture of elite wealth, patronage, and competition during the era of increased international trade.

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通过戈尔康达王国的精英纪念碑推断道路网络和社会政治变化

在对中世纪和近代早期南亚的研究中，考古学家、历史学家和艺术史学家深入研究了选定的纪念碑或调查了纪念碑遗址和其他特征的地区，但很少将他们的数据集作为一个整体来研究以推断社会发展过程。政治变革。本研究以印度德干高原的戈尔康达王国为例，描述了该王国在广阔区域内实际存在的证据，并展示了如何通过将跨空间分布与随时间变化的证据相结合，说明该王国社会政治的各个方面可以推断，从首都的发展到王国与其更遥远的周边地区的关系发生了变化。一些被忽视的纪念碑，当放在这种背景下时，批判性地提出中央政治权威的早期形成阶段；其他人则指出，在国际贸易增加的时代，精英财富、赞助和竞争的文化日益增长。