The Houses Cube

What the floor shows, and what it refuses to

The disc that spreads on the floor at each accession is the reach a seat could claim at that moment — a construction from the seat outward, fading with distance, in the method the flat map already uses. It is not a border. None of the archive’s citations gives a border line for any of these states in any year, and a drawn polygon would be an invented fact. What the floor can show is every place the archive can cite, as a dot: the archipelago of seats, forts and shrines that was the real shape of power here.

Marriages not drawn

• Amber — the Kachhwaha House → The Mughal Empire: a daughter → The Mughal Empire — a house with no column yet.
• Adil Shahi Dynasty → Nizam Shahi Dynasty: a daughter → Nizam Shahi Dynasty — undated on the page.
• Adil Shahi Dynasty → The Imad Shahis of Berar: a daughter → The Imad Shahis of Berar — undated on the page.
• Nizam Shahi Dynasty → Adil Shahi Dynasty: Chand Bibi → Adil Shahi Dynasty — undated on the page.
• Adil Shahi Dynasty → Bahmani Sultanate: Beeby Musseety → Bahmani Sultanate — undated on the page.
• The Imad Shahis of Berar → Nizam Shahi Dynasty: Beeby Dowlut → Nizam Shahi Dynasty — undated on the page.
• Nizam Shahi Dynasty → Qutb Shahi Dynasty: Beeby Jumally → Qutb Shahi Dynasty — a house with no column yet.
• Qutb Shahi Dynasty → Adil Shahi Dynasty: Mullika Jehan → Adil Shahi Dynasty — a house with no column yet.
• Adil Shahi Dynasty → The Mughal Empire: a daughter → The Mughal Empire — a house with no column yet.