Qutb Minar

The Kutab Minar, Iron Pillar and the Great Arches, Delhi.

The Quwwat ul Islam Mosque located in the Kutab complex is a magnificent ruin, and a very popular tourist location today. This transformation began much earlier. As Aditi Chandra recounts in her book Unruly Monuments Disrupting the State at Delhi's

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Kutub Minar, Delhi

Qutub Minar is among the tallest brick minarets in the world, an important early example of Indo-Islamic architecture built between 1199-1220 ACE. The Mexican writer Octavio Paz described it in his book In Light of India (1995):

"it is difficult to

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Qutb Minar