Thesis statement: Indian culture developed through many ages, The Mughal Empire was one of the main influences that developed Indian culture. Indian culture influenced by Mughal arts, architecture, music, religion, literature/language, and trade.
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Architecture- Taj Mahal, Jahangir Mahal, Agra fort, and Fatehpursikri. Came up with the idea of domes, arches, and vaults.
Religion- Mosque and Sufism.
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Arts- Humayun called to Persian artists to join him in India under his reign. (Mir Sayyid Ali and Khwaja Abd al- Sabad).
Music- Sufism (dance and music) Khusro was a really well known singer and a dancer. Tansen of Gwalior (Akbar), largest numbers of books on classical Indian music in Persian were written during Aurangzeb’s reign, and development in the field music (Muhammad Shah).
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Language- Brij (supported by the Mughals), Poets and poems (Tulsidas, and Mallik Muhammad)
Trade + Goods- trade with Europeans.
(To find out: Combinations of two cultures and How did it develop????)
Research Proposal
How do cultures develop?
https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25534
Humanities and social sciences, is a reliable source as it provides citations (Mary E. Hancock. Review of Singh, Balmiki Prasad, India's Culture: The State, the Arts, and Beyond. H-Asia, H-Net Reviews. October, 2009.) The website was started in 1995 and is still running, it has been updated every year. Its author is Balmiki Prasad Singh who studied in Oxford University.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/452520
Chicago Journals is a reliable source as it provides citations (Evan Osborne
Economic Development and Cultural Change , Vol. 49, No. 3 (April 2001) , pp. 659-685) The website provides the authors name (Evan Osborne). It is published by The University of Chicago Press. It talks about Culture, Development, and government.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Culture/Archit/Mugarch.html
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