A Victory Tower Built by a Slave: The Chand Minar at Daulatabad in Deccan India

Abstract The Chand Minar (1446) at Daulatabad Fort is one of the tallest pre-modern stone minarets in the world and has long been recognized as a major work of Indo-Islamic architecture. Yet surprisingly little is known about the building: its iconography and the reason for its construction have not...

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Main Author: Manohar, Mohit (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Muqarnas
Year: 2021, Volume: 38, Issue: 1, Pages: 35-76
Further subjects:B African slavery
B Bahmani
B Vijayanagara
B South Asian architecture
B Race
B Deccan
B Firishta
B Islamic Architecture
B Daulatabad
B minaret
B Chand Minar
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