Introduction to Indian Architecture

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Bindia Thapar. Introduction to Indian Architecture

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Two of the gopurams viewed across the tank in the second enclosure of the Arunachaleshvara Temple in Tiruvannmalai.

The free-standing Diwan-i-Khas or Hall of Private Audience at the palace complex of Fatehpur Sikri.

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The Advent of Islam

Between AD 1001 and 1025, Mahmud of Ghazni (a small town in Afghanistan) plundered India seventeen times. Later, in AD 1192, on the country's northern frontiers, Mohammad Ghauri, a Turkish warlord from the steppes of Central Asia, advanced deep into the region and overthrew the Rajput king Prithviraj Chauhan, marking the political entry of Islam in India. Islam itself had touched India in the 8th century AD through Sind on the western shores, but it was only in the 12th century AD that a dynasty was established that had a different religious identity to the prevailing faith. The Mamluk or Slave dynasty was the first of the Muslim dynasties to be established in India, where it maintained its strong identity of culture and religion.

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