The Great Houses · Sind and the Indus, standing up · 20 reigns, 0 dated marriages

The Houses Cube

The same people as the register, on a time axis and on the ground. First flat, flowing right: every reign as a bar with its name on it. Then standing up: each house a column on its own seat, each accession a shape, each marriage an arc at the height of its year — and at every transfer, the reach a seat could claim, drawn as a field that fades and never as a border.

The DeccanDelhi and the northGujarat, Malwa and KhandeshKashmirBengalSind and the IndusThe far southThe Rajput houses

Every reign of the three houses on one time axisA bar per reign, its name written on it, the mode of accession as a glyph at its start; a dashed outline is a contested record, a dotted bar an accession the archive has not read.132513501375140014251450147515001525155015751600Sind — the SammasJam Afra · 1339–1353 · foundationJam AfraJam Choban · 1353–1367 · designationJam ChobanJam Timmajy · 1367–1391 · inheritanceJam TimmajyJam Salah-ud-Din I · 1391–1393 · inheritanceJam Salah-ud-Din IJam Nizam-ud-Din I · 1393–1423 · inheritanceJam Nizam-ud-Din IJam Fath Khan · 1423–1450 · electionJam Fath KhanJam Mubarak · 1450–1460 · inheritanceJam MubarakJam Nizam-ud-Din II (Nanda) · 1460–1492 · inheritanceJam Nizam-ud-Din II (Nanda)Jam Firuz · 1492–1519 · inheritanceJam FiruzJam Salah-ud-Din II · 1519–1519 · usurpationJam Salah-ud-Din IIMultanShaikh Yusuf Qureshi · 1443–1445 · foundationShaikh Yusuf QureshiQutbuddin Rai Sahra Langah · 1445–1469 · usurpationQutbuddin Rai Sahra LangahHusain Shah Langah I · 1469–1502 · installationHusain Shah Langah IMahmud Shah Langah · 1502–1524 · installationMahmud Shah LangahHusain Shah Langah II · 1524–1525 · minorityHusain Shah Langah IISind — the Arghuns and TarkhansShah Beg Arghun · 1520–1524 · foundationShah Beg ArghunShah Hasan Arghun · 1524–1554 · inheritanceShah Hasan ArghunMirza Isa Tarkhan · 1554–1567 · usurpation · contestedMirza Isa TarkhanMirza Muhammad Baqi Tarkhan · 1567–1584 · usurpation · contestedMirza Muhammad Baqi TarkhanMirza Jani Beg Tarkhan · 1584–1591 · inheritanceMirza Jani Beg Tarkhan
A bar per reign, the name on the bar, the accession mode as a glyph at its start. Dashed vertical lines are the dated marriages between houses; undated ones are listed beneath the tank. 1320–1610 shown; a reign that runs past the edge is clipped, not shortened.

the disc at each transfer is a field, not a border
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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

Every reign, accession mode and marriage the cube draws
HouseRulerFromToModeConfidence
Sind — the SammasJam Afra13391353foundationattested
Sind — the SammasJam Choban13531367designationattested
Sind — the SammasJam Timmajy13671391inheritanceattested
Sind — the SammasJam Salah-ud-Din I13911393inheritanceattested
Sind — the SammasJam Nizam-ud-Din I13931423inheritanceattested
Sind — the SammasJam Fath Khan14231450electionattested
Sind — the SammasJam Mubarak14501460inheritanceattested
Sind — the SammasJam Nizam-ud-Din II (Nanda)14601492inheritanceattested
Sind — the SammasJam Firuz14921519inheritanceattested
Sind — the SammasJam Salah-ud-Din II15191519usurpationattested
MultanShaikh Yusuf Qureshi14431445foundationattested
MultanQutbuddin Rai Sahra Langah14451469usurpationattested
MultanHusain Shah Langah I14691502installationattested
MultanMahmud Shah Langah15021524installationattested
MultanHusain Shah Langah II15241525minorityattested
Sind — the Arghuns and TarkhansShah Beg Arghun15201524foundationattested
Sind — the Arghuns and TarkhansShah Hasan Arghun15241554inheritanceattested
Sind — the Arghuns and TarkhansMirza Isa Tarkhan15541567usurpationcontested
Sind — the Arghuns and TarkhansMirza Muhammad Baqi Tarkhan15671584usurpationcontested
Sind — the Arghuns and TarkhansMirza Jani Beg Tarkhan15841591inheritanceattested

0 accessions are drawn as broken segments because no page read states how they happened.