Mohit Manohar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1256310 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohit Manohar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohit |
| FAMILY NAME | Manohar |
| SIGNATURE | MANOHAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shuhūr sanah , a solar calendar from medieval India
The shuhūr sanah , also called the Shuhur era, was a solar calendar used in Deccan India in the pre-modern and early modern periods. Scholars have long assumed that the calendar was instituted in the early fourteenth century, sometime in 1344–1345 CE, although, to date, no primary evidence from the fourteenth century has been examined to substantiate this inaugural date or explain the circumstances that led to the genesis of the calendar. In the …
The Brush of Insight
Reuse and Iconoclasm in the Medieval Deccan
While instances of both reuse and iconoclasm are well known from several medieval buildings in South Asia, the conjunction of these two related-but-distinct processes have seldom been analyzed. In this article, I present two architectural case studies from Daulatabad, a major fortified city in Deccan India, that include unexamined cases of reuse and iconoclasm: its principal eastern gate and the shrine of the Sufi shaykh Ganj-i Rawan. Although oc…
A Victory Tower Built by a Slave
The Chand Minar (1446) at Daulatabad Fort is one of the tallest pre-modern stone minarets in the world and has long been recognized as a major work of Indo-Islamic architecture. Yet surprisingly little is known about the building: its iconography and the reason for its construction have not been established; even its height is frequently misreported by half. The present article analyzes the building’s architecture and urban context and critically…
A Victory Tower Built by a Slave
The Chand Minar (1446) at Daulatabad Fort is one of the tallest pre-modern stone minarets in the world and has long been recognized as a major work of Indo-Islamic architecture. Yet surprisingly little is known about the building: its iconography and the reason for its construction have not been established; even its height is frequently misreported by half. The present article analyzes the building’s architecture and urban context and critically…
A Victory Tower Built by a Slave
The Chand Minar (1446) at Daulatabad Fort is one of the tallest pre-modern stone minarets in the world and has long been recognized as a major work of Indo-Islamic architecture. Yet surprisingly little is known about the building: its iconography and the reason for its construction have not been established; even its height is frequently misreported by half. The present article analyzes the building’s architecture and urban context and critically…
Reuse and Iconoclasm in the Medieval Deccan
While instances of both reuse and iconoclasm are well known from several medieval buildings in South Asia, the conjunction of these two related-but-distinct processes have seldom been analyzed. In this article, I present two architectural case studies from Daulatabad, a major fortified city in Deccan India, that include unexamined cases of reuse and iconoclasm: its principal eastern gate and the shrine of the Sufi shaykh Ganj-i Rawan. Although oc…
Shuhūr sanah , a solar calendar from medieval India
The shuhūr sanah , also called the Shuhur era, was a solar calendar used in Deccan India in the pre-modern and early modern periods. Scholars have long assumed that the calendar was instituted in the early fourteenth century, sometime in 1344–1345 CE, although, to date, no primary evidence from the fourteenth century has been examined to substantiate this inaugural date or explain the circumstances that led to the genesis of the calendar. In the …
The Brush of Insight
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