1. What do you understand by the term ‘Indo-Islamic’ or ‘IndoSaracenic’ architecture? Can you think of another nomenclature? How did this architecture evolve in India?
2. What types of buildings were added in India in the thirteenth century?
3. Name four styles of Indo-Islamic architecture.
4. What was the significance of a fort in medieval India? What were the strategic devices adopted in the construction of forts to confuse or defeat the enemy?
5. Which forms of secular architecture evolved during medieval times? What significance did these buildings have in the sociocultural lives of contemporary people?
6. How does Mandu showcase the fact that humans adapt to their environment?
7. In spite of being unfinished how does Gol Gumbad symbolise the grandeur and majesty of Indo-Islamic architecture?
8. Which are the places where the dead are buried? How do these differ from each other?
9. Why is the word ‘perfection’ associated with the Taj Mahal?
