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Contents
Preface | 6 |
Mughal Agra a riverfront garden city | 23 |
The riverfront garden city | 29 |
Copyright | |
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Agra Akbar architecture artist Aurangzeb Babur Bagh-i bazaar and caravanserai bazaar street Begam Begley and Desai blossoms British building built Burj caravanserai caravanserai complex cenotaph central centre century chahar bagh chhatris corners court courtyard Curzon dados Dara Shikoh decoration Delhi Diwan-i dome emperor Fatehpuri Masjid flanked flowers funerary gate hall hasht bihisht historians hujra imperial India inlaid inscriptions Islamic Jahanara Jahangir Jilaukhana Kalim kari Khan-i Khawasspuras Koch and Thackston Mahal complex Masjid mausoleum Mihman Khana minarets monument mosque Mughal Mughal architecture Mughal garden Muhammad Mumtaz Mahal Muslim niches octagonal ofthe ornament Padshahnama palace pattern pavilion Persian Photograph taken pietra dura pishtaq plants platform Qur'an Raja Rauza rectangular red sandstone river riverfront garden riverfront terrace roof rooms Shah Jahan Shah Nawaz Khan side Sil Chand stone subsidiary tomb tahkhana Thackston 1997 tomb chamber towers trans vases vaults verandah walkways wall white marble Yamuna
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| Title | The complete Taj Mahal and the riverfront gardens of Agra |
| Author | Ebba Koch |
| Illustrated by | Richard André Barraud |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Bookwise (India) Pvt. Ltd., 2006 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 24 May 2010 |
| Length | 288 pages |
| Subjects | › Agra (India) Architecture / General Gardens, Mogul Taj Mahal (Agra, India) |
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