Sunday, March 9, 2008

Monuments of the great dynasty of the Mughals




The Mughal state was well aware of the declamatory power of architecture and used it as a means of self-representation and an instrument of royalty, write scholars Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom (1994). The most remarkable monuments of the great dynasty of the Mughals included:


1-Humayun's tomb at Delhi


2-the tomb of Khan-i Khanan in south Nizamuddin


3- the Red Fort at Agra


4- the mausoleum of Akbar at Sikandara outside Agra


5-the tomb of Jahangir at Shahdara across the Ravi from Lahore


6- the tomb of Itimad al-Dawleh at Agra


7-the Taj Mahal at Agra; the tomb of Aurangzeb's wife at Aurangabad


8- and the Nawab Safdar Jang's tomb at Delhi.

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