Monuments of Delhi: Architectural & Historical
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Edition
2nd ed.
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ISBN
8185105332, 9788185105338
Length
xxv+207p., 44p. of Plates; Illustrations; 22cm.
Subjects
(Sir) Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-98), the founder of Aligarh Muslim University, was also a scholar of history. He was greatly interested in the monuments of Delhi, on which subject he authored a work “Athar’al-Sanadid” in Urdu. It contained immensely useful historical and architectural material for the study of the monuments of Delhi, built over a long span of time, from c.1192 to 1846 A.D. Its Arabic and Persian inscriptions were meticulously ...