A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.48

c18.48

states at the close of the fifteenth century. The rulers of all those kingdoms encouraged architecture, and, consequently, ancient buildings of greater or less importance exist at all the local capitals. The covered mosque of Kulbarga (Gulbarga) has been already mentioned (*ante*, p. 392), and other notable edifices exist in the same town. Bīdar possesses an imposing mosque, several remarkable tombs, and the ruins of a great college. The royal tombs at Golkonda, near the Nizam's capital, Haidarābād, are more or less familiar to tourists. The special peculiarities of the Golkonda style described as being high clerestories, stucco work in minarets, and domes of peculiar shape with narrow bases, may be illustrated from a tomb built in that style at Bījāpur in the seventeenth century (Fig. 237).