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Publisher: Shubhi Publications, Gurgaon |
| Author A. Fuhrer | |
| Language: English | |
| Pages: 152 (with B/W Illustrations) | |
| Cover: HARDCOVER | |
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9.5x6.5 Inch |
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Weight 530 gm |
| Edition: 2025 | |
| ISBN: 9788182905467 | |
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HBQ771 |
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volume
is the first of the new series of Reports, begun after the re-Archeological
directing these surveys, my aim has been to have the Report volumes, as far as
practicable, exhaustive and final on the subjects treated of in each. Much of
course will be discovered everywhere in the future; but the monumental
archæology can be fully dealt with, and a report-consisting chiefly of cursory
notes on places visited on a flying tour, with rough drawings and photo-graphs
of the more notable buildings and sculptures met with, and specula-tions on
matters on which the surveyor does not possess the materials for anything
better than a mere hypothesis more curious than scientific-is not what ought to
be considered satisfactory. Government has wisely forbidden the indulgence of
the propensity to start such profitless speculations by the surveyors in their
reports; and this volume will be found to be a plain state-ment of historical
facts based on original sources of information relating to the places and
buildings described, with careful and accurate representations of the monuments
and their details sufficient to illustrate them-if not in every detail, yet
quite as fully as is needed to give a complete idea of their archi-tecture. As
Provincial Archæological Surveys had been conducted, at consider-able expense,
both in the Panjab and North-Western Provinces, by officers of the Public Works
Department, for several years previous to 1885, and as it had been devoted
chiefly to the great monuments in Ağrâ, Jaunpûr, Dehli, Lahor, &c.,
I had hoped to be able to utilize and publish much of the material thus
collected, and so make it accessible to the general public. On obtaining from
Government a loan of these drawings, however, it was disappointing to find that,
though numerous, technically well finished, and to large scales, the details-on
which so much of the real character and style of architectural art is
dependent-had not been measured and drawn with necessary care. Many of the
smaller measurements were largely in error, and the proportions of ornamental
work, mouldings, &c., overlooked. To have published such drawings would
have been to produce untruthful in-pressions on the minds of such as should
study them. Instead of the work at Jaunpur, therefore, being only to supply
such additional details as had been overlooked in this extensive series of
drawings, and write the desirable letter-press to accompany them, it was soon
found that the whole must be re-measured and re-drawn, if the representations
were to be accurate in all detalls, Mr. Ed. W. Smith, the Architectural
Assistant, only joined the stafr in February 1886, and without any qualified
draftsman to asist him. In the short period available till the hot season set
in, he completed the work on the Atala and Lil Darwaza Masjids Next cold
weather he was engaged in Bundelkhand and elsewhere, and only returned to
Jaunpür in October 1887, when, with the native draftamen he had been training,
he made the drawings now published of the Jami Masjid. This Report had been
prepared in October 1886 and went to the press in 1887, but the earlier plates
had not been nearly all printed off when the later ones were received to
complete the work. The bulk of the letter-press is by Dr. Führer, whose trained
and varied scholarship is a sufficient guarantee for its accuracy and research.
The architectural descriptions of the buildings were prepared by Mr. Smith. My
work has been to unite these into one connected account, to supervise the
printing, and pass the drawings through the press. To the MS. of his report Dr.
Führer added a bulky appendix of forty-six inscriptions collected during his
tour between 14th February and 31st March 1886. These were in Arabic, Persian
and Sanskrit, many of which were unknown before. Some of these inscriptions,
Dr. Führer mentions, 'are of great historical importance, espe-cially in
settling the question of the time of the first appropriation of the ancient
Buddhist and Hindû temples by the Musalmans. The Arabic and Persian
inscriptions, being mostly short, and belonging directly to the buildings
described, have been engrossed in the text: the longer Sanskrit ones, as
directed by Government, have been kept for separate publication in the
Epigraphia Indica. Besides the monograph on the Sharqi architecture of Jaunpûr,
the report contains notes on the archeological remains at Zafarâbâd,
Bhulla-Tâl, Ayodhya, and Sahet-Mahet, which places Dr. Führer visited in the
course of his tour The plates have been reproduced by photo-lithographic
processes at the Survey of India Office in Calcutta, but on account of other
and more pressing demands, to which these plates had often to give way, the
work has been much protracted. Nothing, however, could exceed the ready
attention and interest bestowed from first to last upon it by Colonel
Waterhouse, to whose care much of their excellence is due, and for which my
best thanks are owing They alone form a most important contribution to Indian
monumental archæology, and will, apart from all description or comment, be
found of much interest by the architect, the artist, and the historian of
Indian archi-tecture.
Sharqi Architecture of Jaunpur is an important scholarly
work that examines the architectural legacy of the Sharqi dynasty (c.
1394-1479), which ruled Jaunpur in northern India. The book explores the unique
Indo-Islamic architectural style developed under the Sharqi rulers. Most
notable examples of Sharqi style of architecture in Jaunpur are the Atala
Masjid, the Lal Darwaza Masjid and the Jama Masjid. Though the foundation of
the Atala Masjid was laid by Firuz Shah Tughluq in 1376, it was completed only
during the rule of Ibrahim Shah in 1408.
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