Bengal roofs

[2][3] Such roof forms appeared for the first time in the 16th century on royal architecture of Rajputs and Mughals.

[4] Early examples are in the Bengali ruined city of Gaur, including the Mausoleum of Fateh Khan, the son of a general of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.

Two of the first Mughal buildings with echoes of Bengal roof shapes are the two outbuildings of the private palace (Khas Mahal) built by Shah Jahan around 1635 for two of his daughters in the Red Fort of Agra.

A few decades later, his son Aurangzeb constructed the roof of the Pearl Mosque (Moti Masjid) in the Red Fort of Delhi in a similar manner.

Some of the later memorial pavillons (chattris), built in the 18th and 19th centuries on the incineration sites of the Hindu princes of Jaisalmer and their family members, are also covered with such roofs.