Talk:Indo-Islamic architecture

message: This page individually contains virtually nothing of significance - merge.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.245.74.51 (talk) 12:14, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with Mughal Architecture 

message: The diffident mention of Sharma is inadequate.  Is this Praduman K. Sharma, Indo - Islamic Architecture (Delhi and Agra), Winsome Books India (2005) ISBN : 81-88043-39-7  ?   Several  Sharmas have written on this subject.Fconaway (talk) 02:56, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Which Sharma?

message: The domes and arches were not used in hindu/ indian architecture is not completely true, the domes for earlier mosque such as qutub complex are from the domes of hindu temples, these are all corbelled arches not true arches, but neither are the islamic arches of the qutub complex. The domes were used extensively in hindu architecture where the inner domical ceiling was a prominent feature of not only rajput pre islamic but also many south indian architecture.
The pointed arches of mahabodhi temple occured even before invasion of islam and these arches can still be seen in the myanmar temple architecture which shows that pointed true arches were known and practiced in the indian architecture.
the onion domes and their shapes were also known to indians as can be seen in several buddhist and then chola domical structures in south india which are solid. 
The pointed arch was infact invented in the indian sub continent as a lotus shaped arch and was properly reintroduced in india by islamic invasion.
minarets were also used in pre islamic buddhist period and were originally indian stambhas and thus should have been known and practiced in the indian sub continent, it is just that their examples dont survive today, but several minaret motifs can be seem from buddhist motifs in the indian sub continent. The domed temple of buddhism/ hinduism still survive in the 2nd cen AD Gumbatona stupa in swat Pakistan which is infact a true dome.
the article also fails to mentions the amount of hindu/ indegenious indian designs which were imported for indo islamic architecture for example extensive uses of pillars, the jali, the chatri (umbrella), the tappering columns, the floral motifs compared to the geometrical motifs of islamic designs, the finial etc. 
i think this info should be included in the article for the readers to better understand and compare the indian and islamic architecture aspects of indo islamic architecture 
regards Rameezraja001 (talk) 11:04, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: What the article says (lead) is that the dome and arch "were hardly used in Hindu temple architecture and other native Indian styles", which I think is true. This is the case for them considered as constructional devices.  In rock-cut architecture arch and dome shapes can of course be cut out, but in fact these forms are very rarely used in the early rock-cut buildings.  That "The pointed arch was infact invented in the indian sub continent as a lotus shaped arch" is not a widely-held view, to put it mildly.  The article still needs expansion, and some of the points you mention at the end - which are perhaps mainly true of Mughal architecture and later styles, could well be added. Johnbod (talk) 15:46, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Domes and arches ad controversy 

message: indo islamic architecture naturally assumes that domes, arches were missing from indian architecture, it can be argued that it was missing from the remains of the hindu architecture but the domes, arches presence in india cannot be entirely dismissed. domes have been regularly shown to occur during mauryan era reliefs of the buildings. the south indian temples also display presence of solid domes. serated arches can be seen in many brick temples of Punjab in Pakistan, although those arches may have been corbeled, i have an image of a first millennium buddhist temple with true pointed arch. the tilhara monastry, nalanda monastry arch also exhibits prevalence of arches in buddhist architecture of india which has largely disappeared. The pointed arches are also seen in the buddhist temples of myanmar which also resemble the perticular bengali pointed arches in later islamic period, this can be interpreted as later variation of local islamic innovation to bengali architecture or it can be argued as bengali style arch which was already prominent in the east indian architecture, many colonial british archaeologists also point to the presence of arches in west bengal architecture all of which have crumbled. Photograph of a ruined vishnu temple at Deo Baranark, Bihar, taken by Henry Baily Wade Garrick in 1881-82 has visible pointed arch built in the eighth century. 
mahabodhi pointed arch  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.188.53.210 (talk) 22:51, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, is that User:115.135.130.182 again? Johnbod (talk) 13:48, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  domes, arches and other major misconceptions of indo islamic architecture 

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