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Beyond its dynasties and its sacred sites, the Deccan is marked by the works its rulers and citizens built to last — the forts, palaces, tombs and monuments that punctuate the plateau, and the institutions of learning, medicine and culture that carried the region into the modern age. Together they are the visible record of a civilisation.[1,2]
This section gathers those landmarks in two strands: the monuments of stone and the institutions of mind — the universities, colleges, hospitals, libraries and museums founded across the Deccan and the old Hyderabad State.[3]
Monuments
The forts, palaces, gateways and tombs of the Deccan — Golconda and Daulatabad, the Charminar and Chowmahalla, the Gol Gumbaz of Bijapur and the Qutb Shahi necropolis — the monuments that define the skyline of the plateau.
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The great institutions of the Deccan and Hyderabad State — Osmania University, Jamia Nizamia, the Tibbi College, the Salar Jung Museum, the State Central Library and the schools and colleges that educated the region.
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- ^ George Michell & Mark Zebrowski, Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates (The New Cambridge History of India I.7), Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- ^ Richard M. Eaton, A Social History of the Deccan, 1300–1761: Eight Indian Lives, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- ^ UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Tentative List, "Monuments and Forts of the Deccan Sultanate." ↗