Fergusson, James: A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day: in five volumes (Band 3) (London, 1899)

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INDIAN SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. Book VII.

a strongly-marked affinity to the Persian style of the same or an
earlier age. One example must for the present suffice to explain
their general appearance, for they are all very much alike. It is the
tomb of the Nawab Amir Khan, who was governor of the province
in the reign of Shah Jehan, from a.u. 1627-1632, and afterwards a.d.
1641-16f><). The tomb was built apparently about a.d. 1640 (Wood-
cut No. 326). It is of brick, but was, like all the others of its class,
ornamented with coloured tiles, like those of Persia generally, of
great beauty of pattern and exquisite harmony of colouring. It is

32g. Tomb of Xawab Amir Chan, near Tatta, a.p. 16-10. (From a lMiotograph.)

not a very monumental way of adorning a building, but, as carried
out on the dome of the Rock at Jerusalem, in the middle of the 16th
or in the mosque at Tabreez in the beginning of the 13th century,1
and generally in Persian buildings, it is capable of producing the
most pleasing effects.

Like the other tombs in the province, it is so similar to Persian
buildings of the same age, and so unlike any other found at the same
age in India Proper, that we can have little doubt as to the nationality
of those who erected them.

1 Ante, vol. ii. p, 568.