The Great Houses · The far south, standing up · 2 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 Deccan Delhi and the north Gujarat, Malwa and Khandesh Kashmir Bengal Sind and the IndusThe far southThe Rajput houses

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. 1750–1810 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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1780

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.

Every reign, accession mode and marriage the cube draws
House	Ruler	From	To	Mode	Confidence
Mysore	Ḥaydar 'Alī Khān Bahādur	1760	1782	usurpation	contested
Mysore	Tipu Sultan	1782	1799	inheritance	contested
Mysore	Fatḥ Muḥammad	0	1	not recorded	gap

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