Военная история / Bayana: The Sources of Mughal Architecture

Название: Bayana: The Sources of Mughal Architecture
Авторы: Mehrdad Shokoony, Natalie H. Shokoony
Издательство: Edinburgh University Press Ltd
Год: 2020
Страниц: 750
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 318 MB

Bayana in Rajasthan, and its monuments, challenge the perceived but established view of the development of Muslim architecture and urban form in India. At the end of the twelfth century, early conquerors took the mighty Hindu fort, building the first Muslim city below on virgin ground. They later reconfigured the fort and constructed another town within it. These two towns were the centre of an autonomous region during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Going beyond a simple study of the historic, architectural and archaeological remains, this book takes on the wider issues of how far the artistic traditions of Bayana, which developed independently from those of Delhi, later influenced north Indian architecture. It shows how these traditions were the forerunners of the Mughal architectural style, which drew many of its features from innovations developed first in Bayana.