Bayana : : The Sources of Mughal Architecture / / Natalie H. Shokoohy, Mehrdad Shokoohy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Shokoohy, Mehrdad,; Shokoohy, Natalie H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (752 p.) :; 255 B/W illustrations 352 colour illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Method of Transliteration --; Abbreviations --; CHAPTER ONE Introduction --; CHAPTER TWO History --; CHAPTER THREE The Three Towns --; CHAPTER FOUR Early Monuments: Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries --; CHAPTER FIVE Mosques and Minarets --; CHAPTER SIX The Chatrī: its Origin, its Basic Forms and its Variants in Bayana --; CHAPTER SEVEN Waterworks --; CHAPTER EIGHT Domestic Architecture --; CHAPTER NINE Mansions, Semi-public Buildings and Later Monuments --; CHAPTER TEN Historic Edifices in the Towns and Villages of the Bayana Region --; CHAPTER ELEVEN Epilogue --; APPENDIX I Historical Inscriptions of Bayana and its Region --; APPENDIX II The Genealogy of the Auḥadīs of Bayana --; APPENDIX III Funerary Chatrīs and Other Tombs --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474460750; 9783110780413
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474460750
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Natalie H. Shokoohy, Mehrdad Shokoohy.

A lavishly illustrated and meticulously detailed record of the historic Bayana regionOffers 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 modernisationBayana 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 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 15th and 16th 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.