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" Kachchh art and architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
London, Christopher W.
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English
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1062383
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ALei2780
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London, Christopher W.
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Kachchh art and architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ London, Christopher W.
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,965 words)
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Kachchh (Kachchh, a Sanskritic word, often spelt Kutch) was, from the seventh/thirteenth century to 1948, a princely state in present-day northwestern Gujarat state, India, which included Sind (Pakistan), Badmer and Jaisalmer (Rajasthan), and the Rann (salt marshes) of Kutch in Gujarat. Isolated geographically on the Subcontinent by the impenetrable Thar desert and the Arabian Sea, with no easy land access to a neighbouring country, Kachchh was not well known to Indian travellers, although its interior did become more familiar in the early twentieth century. Its coastline favoured sea
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Islam.
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