Question

How Indo-Islamic Art represents Composite Indian Culture? Prove it with examples.

Answer 1

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Explanation:

Indo-Persian architecture is the Indic architecture & engineering of the Indian subcontinent, ... and Persian architecture and art styles from Western Eurasia into the Indian subcontinent. ... Unlike the buildings mentioned previously, it completely lacks carved texts, and sits in a compound with high walls and battlements.

Answer 2

Answer:

Tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam (built 1320 to 1324) in Multan, Pakistan

The Buland Darwaza gateway to Fatehpur Sikri, built by Akbar in 1601

Indo-Persian architecture is the Indic architecture & engineering of the Indian subcontinent, often embedding some elements of architecture carried over from various parts of West and Central Asia, produced for and by Islamic regimes. Such foreign elements come from regions themselves influenced earlier by the spread of Indian architectural vocabulary with the spread of Buddhism, as Persian architecture worldwide started from the adoption, use and re-use of early pre-Islamic architectures.[1] Despite an initial Arab presence in Sindh, the development of Indo-Persian architecture began in earnest with the establishment of Delhi as the capital of the Ghurid dynasty in 1193.[2] Succeeding the Ghurids was the Delhi Sultanate, a series of Central Asian dynasties that consolidated much of North India, and later the Mughal Empire by the 15th century. Both of these dynasties introduced Persianate, Turkic and Persian architecture and art styles from Western Eurasia into the Indian subcontinent.[3]

The types and forms of large buildings required by Muslim elites, with mosques and tombs much the most common, were very different from those previously built in India. The exteriors of both were very often topped by large domes, and made extensive use of arches. Both of these features are used in Indian Buddhist architecture for eg. the stupas and other indigenous Indian styles. Both types of building essentially consist of a single large space under a high dome, and completely avoid the figurative sculpture so important to Hindu temple architecture.[4]

Islamic buildings initially adapted the skills of a workforce trained in earlier Indian traditions to their own designs. Unlike most of the Islamic world, where brick tended to predominate, India had highly skilled builders well used to producing stone masonry of extremely high quality.[5] Alongside the architecture developed in Delhi and prominent centres of Mughal presence such as Agra, Lahore and Allahabad, a variety of regional styles developed in regional kingdoms like the Bengal, Gujarat, Deccan, Jaunpur and Kashmir Sultanates that reflected architecture of those specific regions. Following the collapse of the Mughal Empire, regional nawabs such as in Lucknow, Hyderabad and Mysore continued to commission and patronize the construction of Mughal-style architecture in the princely states.