Roots or Routes?
Networks, Translation, and Transculturation
Things and Texts
Polyglot Frontiers and Permeable Boundaries
Gifts, Idolatry, and the Political Economy
Heteropraxy, Taxonomy, and Traveling Orthography
Cultural Cross-dressing
Prestigious Imitation
Fractal Kingship and Royal Castoffs
The Raja's Finger and the Sultan's Belt
Accommodating the Infidel
Sunni Internationalism and the Ghurid Interlude
From King of the Mountains to the Second Alexander
Homology, Ambiguity, and the Rule of Sri Hammira
Looking at Loot
Signs of Sovereignty
Looting and Difference
Trophies and Transculturation
Remaking Monuments
Taxonomies, Anomalies, and Visual Pidgin
Rupture and Reinscription
Noble Chambers and Translated Stones
Patrons and Masons
Markets, Mobility, and Intentional Hybridity
Palimpsest Pasts and Fictive Genealogies
A World within a World
Monuments and Memory
The Fate of Hammira
Conclusion : In and Out of Place
Appendix : Principal Dynasties and Rulers Mentioned.