Early Indian architecture was made from wood, which did not survive due to rotting and instability in the structures. Instead, the earliest existing architecture is made with Indian rock-cut architecture, including many Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain temples.
India's first major Islamic kingdom was the Delhi Sultanate, which led to the development of Indo-Islamic architecture, combining Indian and Islamic features. The rule of the Mughal Empire was when Mughal architecture evolved.
The Taj Mahal is the high point of Indo-Islamic architecture's contribution. A new style, known as the Indo-Saracenic style got discovered with a mixture of Indo-Islamic and European styles.
After India's independence, modernist ideas spread among Indian architects as a way of progressing from the colonial culture. Le Corbusier, who designed the city of Chandigarh, influenced a generation of architects toward modernism in the 20th century.
Did you know Nagara refers to North Indian temple styles, most easily recognized by a high and curving shikhara over the sanctuary? Dravida or Dravidian architecture is the broad South Indian style, possessing a lower superstructure over the sanctuary.
By the time of Tughlaqs, Islamic architecture in India had adopted some features of earlier Indian architecture, such as the use of a high plinth and often moldings around its edges, as well as columns and brackets, and hypostyle halls.
Most of the monumental buildings constructed were tombs. However, the impressive Lodi Gardens in Delhi, adorned with fountains, char bagh gardens, ponds, tombs, and mosques, were constructed by the late Lodi dynasty.