Muhammadan Architecture in Kashmir

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The book Mohammadan architecture in Kashmir basically deals in three styles of architecture. First one is the pre Mughal style second is the wooden style, and third is pure Mughal style. The tomb of Zainu-1- don's mother falls under the first category of architecture. Three British architects Cunningham, Cole and Ferguson had a difference of opinion on this Cunningham and Cole maintained that the enclosure wall of this building was once the enclosure wall of a Hindu temple while Ferguson maintained that the wall was built entirely by Muhammadans, dating it about 1,000 years later. But the fact remains that Cunningham and Cole saw the building, while Ferguson did not and nobody, I think, can observe the massiveness of the stones used, and their unmistakably ancient appearance without agreeing with Cunningham and Cole that the enclosure wall is an old Hindu wall in Sita.

There is one other pre-Mughal building in Srinagar which deserves to be mentioned here. The tomb of Madani is a small building quite neglected and very dilapidated, and it does not appear to be included in the accounts of any traveler or archaeologist.

Cummingham and Cole in their accounts of antiquities in Kashmir dealt almost exclusively with Hindu and Buddhist monuments, and left the wooden style: exemplified in the more modern buildings practically unnoticed.

Having before is a clear field, which will be worthwhile to consider the conditions under which the style was evolved or introduced. This book will benefit both the teacher as well as students of Muhammedan architecture.

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