Architecture of Mughal India (The New Cambridge History of India)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 9/24/1992
EAN 9780521267281, ISBN10: 0521267285
Hardcover, 402 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 2.2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
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.
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.