Search Results - "Mughal empire"
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The genesis of Persian and Urdu languages and literatures in India
Published 2015“…However, from the beginning of the seventeenth century Urdu began to form around the lower echelons of society as a pidgin common tongue to enable communication between the myriad ethnicities of the Mughal Empire, ultimately restricting Persian to a refined language of culture and courtly life in the Mughal court and becoming a vibrant and dynamic language in its own right, thus becoming the first literary language with a substantial original contribution from Indians since ancient Sanskrit. …”
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The architectural integration of passive systems through thermal flywheel effect with evaporative cooling in Shish Mahal, Lahore Fort, Pakistan
Published 2016“…There has been much research on the comfort conditions of modern building that used natural ventilation and water bodies as medium of cooling, however much less is known about the impacts of these medium when involved to the traditional and heritage buildings especially the remnants of Mughal Empire. The study reports an ongoing research utilising computational fluid dynamics analysis to study and verify the daily and seasonal impact of passive strategies as constructed in 16th century complexes which had utilised a high degree of complexity in their passive systems through architectural means. …”
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