History of architecture Gaur minar at West Bengal

History of architecture gavur winner at West Bengal

1. FIRIZ MINAR Gaur, West Bengal

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3. FIROZ MINAR GAUR, WEST BENGAL 1485- 1489 Tughlaqi style 5 floor plans Dodegonal style -3floors Circular style remaining 2 floors Total 5 floors Sultan saifuddin Firoz Shah ,, habshi dynasty Resembles qutab minar 26 m high and 19 m in circumference Masonry plinth Built by bricks

4. In his book The Ruins of Gour Henry Creighton, one of the first among a series of early English explorers to the site describes Gaur as ‘an uninhabited waste’, ‘concealed in deep jungle, and situated in one of the least civilized districts of the Bengal Presidency’.1 Describing the ruins in hyperbolic rhetoric, Creighton writes