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Describe the new architectural features added by successive Sultans in the construction of Tombs in India.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Society, Culture and Economy in the 13th and 14th Centuries

Tomb-building carried an ideological weight in the Delhi Sultanate that mosque or fort construction did not.

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  • Iltutmish's Tomb (c. 1235): The First Experiment
  • Balban's Tomb (1287–88): The Structural Breakthrough
  • The Khalji Contribution: Grace Through New Materials
  • Ghiyasuddin Tughluq's Tomb (c. 1325): The Fortress Aesthetic
  • Firuz Shah's Reign: Reduced Ornament and the Octagonal Breakthrough
  • The Sayyid–Lodi Culmination: Standardising Two Types

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