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Author Asher, Catherine B. (Catherine Blanshard), 1946-

Title Architecture of Mughal India / Catherine B. Asher
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 368 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series New Cambridge history of India ; I, 4
New Cambridge history of India ; I, 4
Contents Glossary -- Map of major pre-Mughal and Mughal sites -- Precedents for Mughal architecture -- The beginnings of Mughal architecture -- The age of Akbar -- Jahangir: an age of transition -- Shah Jahan and the crystallization of Mughal style -- Aurangzeb and the Islamization of the Mughal style -- Architecture and the struggle for authority under the later Mughals and their successor states-- Bibliographical essays
Summary Traces the development and spread of architecture under the Mughal emperors who ruled the Indian subcontinent from the early-16th to the mid-19th centuries. The book considers the entire scope of architecture built under the auspices of the imperial Mughals and their subjects
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Architecture, Mogul Empire
Islamic architecture -- India.
Architecture, Mogul Empire.
Islamic architecture.
Bouwkunst.
India.
Mogol-rijk.
India.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511468780
0511468784
9781139055635
1139055631