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'''Rumi Khan's Tomb''', also known as '''Pila Gumbad''' ("yellow dome") is a mausoleum located in [[Ahmednagar]], in the Indian state of Maharashtra.<ref name="archive">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.153598/page/n273/mode/2up |title=History of Medieval Deccan |date=1974 |editor-last=Sherwani |editor-first=Haroon Khan |volume=II |pages=264–265 |editor-last2=Joshi |editor-first2=P. M.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Shyam |first=Radhey |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.118595/page/393/mode/2up |title=The Kingdom Of Ahmadnagar |date=1966 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |pages=394–395}}</ref><br />
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== Background ==<br />
Rumi Khan was a nobleman and a gun-caster in the [[Ahmadnagar Sultanate|Ahmednagar Sultanate]], who died sometime in the late 16th century. The tomb was probably constructed during his lifetime, and used as a garden pavilion before his interment. This garden probably contained a gun-casting foundry, and it is possible that the ''[[Malik-E-Maidan|Malik-i Maidan]]'' was cast here.<ref name="google">{{Cite book |last=Sohoni |first=Pushkar |author-link=Pushkar Sohoni |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gSaODwAAQBAJ&dq=rumi+khan's+tomb&pg=PA181 |title=The Architecture of a Deccan Sultanate: Courtly Practice and Royal Authority in Late Medieval India |publisher= Bloomsbury|year=2018 |isbn= 978-1-83860-928-3|pages=181 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Description ==<br />
The tomb is constructed entirely out of dressed stone, without any plaster ornamentation on the exterior. It measures about 26 feet square, and has a height of about 40 feet. The walls are four feet thick. Externally, each wall consists of two horizontal floors, divided by a band of [[merlon]]-shaped crestings. Each floor has three recessed arches. Windows and doors are provided in the central arches of each wall. The building is surmounted by a lofty dome resting upon a drum, adorned with a band of [[Nelumbo nucifera|lotus]]-petal moldings. Flat-roofed kiosks are placed at all four corners of the roof, and a [[trefoil]]-patterned [[parapet]] runs in between them.<ref name="archive"/><ref name="google"/><ref>{{Cite book |last=Shyam |first=Radhey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5C4hBqKdkEsC&dq=Tomb+of+Rumi+Khan&pg=PA394 |title=The Kingdom of Ahmadnagar |date=1966 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |isbn=978-81-208-2651-9 |pages=394 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last1=Michell |first1=George |url=https://the-deccan.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/cambridge_history_michell_zebrowski_art_architecture_deccan_sultanates.pdf |title=Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates |last2=Zebrowski |first2=Mark |publisher=Cambridge University Press |series=[[The New Cambridge History of India]] I : 7 |pages=83 |access-date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718003730/https://the-deccan.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/cambridge_history_michell_zebrowski_art_architecture_deccan_sultanates.pdf |archive-date=18 July 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><br />
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