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Architecture of Mughal India

Catherine B. Asher

(The new Cambridge history of India / general editor, Gordon Johnson, 1 . The Mughals and their contemporaries ; 4)

Cambridge University Press, 1992

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"Bibliographical essays": p. 335-356

Includes index

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • List of plates
  • General editor's preface
  • Preface
  • List of abbreviations
  • Glossary
  • Map of major pre-Mughal and Mughal sites
  • 1. Precedents for Mughal architecture
  • 2. The beginnings of Mughal architecture
  • 3. The age of Akbar
  • 4. Jahangir: an age of transition
  • 5. Shah Jahan and the crystallization of Mughal style
  • 6. Aurangzeb and the Islamization of the Mughal style
  • 7. Architecture and the struggle for authority under the later Mughals and their successor states
  • Bibliographical essays
  • Index.

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