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Architecture of Mughal India / Catherine B. Asher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Asher, Catherine B. (Catherine Blanshard), 1946- author.
- Series:
- New Cambridge history of India ; I, 4.
- The new Cambridge history of India ; I, 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Mughal Empire.
- Islamic architecture--India.
- Islamic architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxi, 368 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
- Summary:
- In Architecture of Mughal India Catherine Asher presents the first comprehensive study of Mughal architectural achievements. The work is lavishly illustrated and will be widely read by students and specialists of South Asian history and architecture as well as by anyone interested in the magnificent buildings of the Mughal empire.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781139055635 (ebook)
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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