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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 566 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MANDU , or MANDOGARIr, a ruined See also:

city in the See also:Dhar See also:state of Central See also:India, the See also:ancient See also:capital of the See also:Mahommedan See also:kingdom of See also:Malwa. The city is situated at an See also:elevation of 2079 ft. and extends for 8 m. along the See also:crest of the Vindhyan mountains. It reached its greatest splendour in the 15th See also:century under Hoshang Shah (1405-1434). The See also:circuit of the battlemented See also:wall is nearly 23 m., enclosing a large number of palaces, mosques and other buildings. The See also:oldest See also:mosque See also:dates from 1405; the finest is the Jama Masjid or See also:great mosque, a notable example of See also:Pathan See also:architecture, founded by Hoshang Shah. The See also:marble-domed See also:tomb of this ruler is also magnificent. For a description and See also:history of Mandu, see See also:Sir See also:James See also:Campbell's Gazetteer of Bombay, vol. i. See also:part ii. (1896), and See also:Journal of the Bombay See also:Asiatic Society (vol. xxi.).

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