Early Mughal architecture

The Mughals were an Indian Islamic dynasty which ruled most of northern India from the beginning of the sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. Mughal architecture came into prominence with the rule of Babur who was the first Mughal emperor in India in 1526. Babur`s victory over Ibrahim Lodi, initiated the erection of a mosque at Panipat succeded by another called the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. Maqbara in Baroda is an example of the early Mughal architecture and bears very less similarities with the florid style that existed prior to the Mughal era Early Mughal architecture relied on post-and-beam construction and scarcely used arches. Some great forts and palaces of the early Mughal period can be traced in the reign of Akbar 1556-1605) in Agra.