Indian art and culture / Architecture
Indo-Islamic architecture: Sultanate and provincial styles
Concepts to cover
- Features: true arch and dome, mortar, minar, mihrab and qibla, calligraphy, arabesque and geometry, jali, charbagh later
- Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque, Qutb Minar (Aibak and Iltutmish), Iltutmish's tomb, Alai Darwaza (Khalji, first true arch and dome)
- Tughlaq austerity: batter walls, Tughlaqabad, Ghiyasuddin's tomb, Firoz Shah Kotla, Khirki; Sayyid-Lodi octagonal tombs, double dome, Lodi gardens
- Cities of Delhi: Qila Rai Pithora, Siri, Tughlaqabad, Jahanpanah, Firozabad, Dinpanah (Purana Qila), Shahjahanabad
- Jaunpur Atala (no minaret), Bengal (Adina, Eklakhi, curved bangla roof), Gujarat (Jami Masjid Ahmedabad, Sidi Saiyyid jali, Champaner), Malwa (Mandu Jahaz and Hindola Mahal), Kashmir wooden
- Deccan: Gulbarga Jami Masjid, Bidar madrasa of Gawan, Bijapur Gol Gumbaz (whispering gallery) and Ibrahim Rauza, Golconda Charminar and Qutb Shahi tombs