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The Chaukhandi Tombs is among the largest and best-preserved necropolis in the world. Being unique in the whole Islamic world and evolving purely from local traditions, these tombs render a most original and independent contribution to Islamic sepulchral architecture and ornamental sculpture. This book contains the first systematic study and analyses of group funerary structures, comprising some fifty cemeteries of varying size, with approximately 2000 monuments. It is the first book devoted exclusively to this subject; the author’s own fieldwork and documentation having made the work authoritative. The author has used the style-critical method to delineate the particular features of Chaukhandi as well as to trace the features that link it to the architectural tradition of Gujrat and Western India.

Islamic Architecture in South Asia: Pakistan - India – BangladeshMuslim contribution towards evolving and perpetuating a distinctive style of architecture in the South Asian subcontinent has been epoch-making. Different and divergent from its local counterpart, the style was essentially a synthesized assimilation of foreign as well as local elements, which together created marvels both of religious and secular buildings. While foreign elements were introduced by the Arabs, Persians, Turks, and the Central Asians, local characteristics were borrowed from the Hindu-Jaina temples and Buddhist monastic establishments. The present book gives a résumé of these efforts and researches, putting it in chronological perspective and geographical sequence. The material researched and illustrated by the archaeologists and architectural historians and published in the annual reports, memoirs and journals of the old Archaeological Survey of India and the Pakistan Department of Archaeology, has been generously and extensively adapted and included in the text.