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Trace the technological and stylistic development in the architecture of the Sultanate period.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Society, Culture and Economy in the 13th and 14th Centuries

Turkish rule in India after 1206 did not simply import a foreign architectural style wholesale — it introduced a new structural science that Indian craftsmen then absorbed, tested, and reworked over three centuries into something genuinely hybrid.

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  • From Trabeate to Arcuate: The Structural Break
  • The Problem of the Dome: Squinch to Pendentive to Drum
  • Building Material and Masonry Technique
  • Decorative Vocabulary: Calligraphy, Geometry, Arabesque
  • Stylistic Periodization: From the Early Form to the Final Phase

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