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# A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.52

A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.52

- **Language:** English

### [c18.52](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c18.52)

The stately tomb of Muhammad Ādil Shah (1636–60) is covered with a dome the second largest in the world, ‘a wonder of constructive skill,’ balanced internally by an ingenious arrangement of pendentives, fully explained by Fergusson, and with an internal height of 178 feet.

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