Mehrdad Shokoohy, "Bayana: The Sources of Mughal Architecture"
English | ISBN: 1474460720 | 2020 | 752 pages | PDF | 318 MB
English | ISBN: 1474460720 | 2020 | 752 pages | PDF | 318 MB
Bayana in Rajasthan, and its monuments, challenge the perceived but established view of the development of Muslim architecture and urban form in India. At the end of the twelfth century, early conquerors took the mighty Hindu fort, building the first Muslim city below on virgin ground. They later reconfigured the fort and constructed another town within it. These two towns were the centre of an autonomous region during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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