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Trace the development of art and architecture under the Mughals and point out mingling of Hindu elements in them.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Culture during Mughal Empire

Mughal architecture was never a transplanted Central Asian style; it was a running dialogue between an incoming Timurid-Persian vocabulary and indigenous Indian building traditions, with the balance between the two shifting decisively from reign to reign.

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