The Splendour that was ʾInd: A Survey of Indian Culture and Civilisation (from the Earliest Times to the Death of Emperor Aurangzeb)D. B. Taraporevala, 1930 - 236 pages |
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Page 183
... Muhammadan architecture in India . The Cathedral Mosque of Delhi , with its tall , slender minarets visible from a great distance , and pleasing from outside beyond compare with any other similar structure , is an edifice on a more ...
... Muhammadan architecture in India . The Cathedral Mosque of Delhi , with its tall , slender minarets visible from a great distance , and pleasing from outside beyond compare with any other similar structure , is an edifice on a more ...
Page 191
... Muhammadan period , compensating industries of road- carrying vehicles and railways have been built up ; and that consequently there is a large balance in favour of the present regime . He , therefore , does scant justice to this ...
... Muhammadan period , compensating industries of road- carrying vehicles and railways have been built up ; and that consequently there is a large balance in favour of the present regime . He , therefore , does scant justice to this ...
Page 212
... Muhammadan ascendancy ; while the plaiting and bejewelling of the hair must have certainly approximated to the finest of the fine arts . Of the head and face ornaments affected by the Muhammadan grandes dames , the centre mark in the ...
... Muhammadan ascendancy ; while the plaiting and bejewelling of the hair must have certainly approximated to the finest of the fine arts . Of the head and face ornaments affected by the Muhammadan grandes dames , the centre mark in the ...
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