Who among the following built India’s oldest tomb—the tomb of Nasiruddin Mahmud, Sultangarhi/Delhi—and also holds the distinction of being the “Father of the Tomb Building Style”?
Iltutmish is credited with pioneering early Sultanate tomb architecture and building the tomb of his son, Nasiruddin Mahmud, at Sultan Garhi near Delhi. His constructions blended indigenous and Islamic motifs and set architectural precedents for later monumental tomb-building in medieval India. ANSWER: (C) Iltutmish
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Iltutmish played a formative role in the development of Indo-Islamic funerary architecture. He built the tomb of his son Nasiruddin Mahmud at Sultan Garhi, which is among the earliest extant Islamic tombs in the Delhi region. These structures displayed experimental fusion of local building methods and Islamic forms—such as arches, domes and corbelled features—paving the way for later monumental tombs. Because of these early exemplars, Iltutmish is often regarded as a founding figure in the Sultanate’s tomb-building tradition; his projects established architectural vocabulary that later matured under subsequent dynasties.