Architecture of Mughal India

In Architecture of Mughal India Catherine Asher presents the first comprehensive study of Mughal architectural achievements.

Catherine B. Asher (Author)

9780521267281, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 24 September 1992

402 pages, 214 b/w illus. 1 map
25.2 x 18.2 x 3.6 cm, 1.18 kg

'In almost every way they mark a tremendous leap forward. It is a detached, post-colonial enterprise and if the volumes which follow preserve the same quality of scholarship and writing then there is a treat in store for all students of sub-continental history. The literary fluency which makes all the volumes an excellent read for lay persons interested in recent Indian history comes, I think, from a deep and intimate knowledge of the subject.' The Guardian

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.

Subject Areas: History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600 [ACN]