Architecture of Mughal India: The New Cambridge History of India

Author: Catherine B. Asher,Gordon Johnson,C.A. Bayly,John F. Richards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Art History: c 1400 to c 1600, Architecture, History Of Architecture, Asian History, Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700
Book Format: Hardcover

This book traces the development and spread of architecture under the Mughal emp rors. Professor Asher considers the entire scope of architecture built under the auspices of the imperial Mughals and their subjects. She looks in particular at the role of political and cultural ideology, the relationship between construction in the major cities and in the provinces and the continuing Mughal fascination with paradisical imagery that culminated in the construction of the Taj Mahal.

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.

(BK-9780521267281)

SKU BK-9780521267281
Barcode # 9780521267281
Brand Cambridge University Press
Artist / Author Catherine B. Asher, Gordon Johnson, C.A. Bayly, John F. Richards
Shipping Weight 1.2000kg
Shipping Width 0.190m
Shipping Height 0.030m
Shipping Length 0.260m
Assembled Length 19.050m
Assembled Height 3.180m
Assembled Width 26.040m
Type Hardcover

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