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## A lavishly illustrated and meticulously detailed record of the historic Bayana region * Offers a broad reinvestigation of North Indian Muslim architecture through a case study of a desert fortress * Includes detailed maps of the sites: Bayana Town, the Garden City of Sikandra and the Vijayamandargarh or Tahangar Fort with detailed survey of its fortifications and its elaborate gate systems * Features photographs and measured surveys of 140 monuments and epigraphic records from the 13th to the end of the 16th century including mosques, minarets, waterworks, domestic dwellings, mansions, ‘idgahs (prayer walls) and funerary edifices * Introduces historic outlying towns and their monuments in the region such as Barambad, Dholpur, Khanwa and Nagar-Sikri (later to become Fathpur Sikri) * Demonstrates Bayana’s cultural and historic importance in spite of its present obscurity and neglect and adds to the record of India’s disappearing historic heritage in the wake of modernisation Bayana in Rajasthan, and its monuments, challenge the established view of the development of Muslim architecture and urban form in India. At the end of the 12th century, early conquerors took the mighty Hindu

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Author

Mehrdad Shokoohy, Natalie H. Shokoohy, Natalie Shokoohy

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474460750

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, History & Criticism, Humanities