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Discuss the contributions of Bahmani Sultans to the development of Indo-Islamic architecture

  • UPSC 2024
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Society and Culture

The Bahmani Sultanate (1347–1538), ruling the northern Deccan from Gulbarga and later Bidar, developed a distinct regional idiom within Indo-Islamic architecture by fusing imported Persian, Turkish, and Arab craft traditions with local Deccani building practice.

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  • The Gulbarga Phase: An Austere Beginning
  • The Shift to Bidar and a More Decorated Idiom
  • Mahmud Gawan's Madrasa: The Bahmani Architectural Peak
  • The Bahmani Synthesis: A Distinct Regional Idiom
  • Transmission to the Successor Deccan Sultanates

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