Chhota Pandua Minar is the most important tower of all existing buildings of West Bengal, India as well as whole Bengal. The tower symbolizing victory and glory, it stands at the southeast side of the bari mosque around 50m away. It is round shaped and five storied tower, each decreasing in diameter from 18m at the base to 4.50m at the top. The height of the tower is 37.50m. Inside of the tower there is a spiral staircase leading to the top. The staircase opens out to a terrace, which runs all round the base of each successive storey. The entrance is on the west side towards the mosque. The walls of the tower are plastered and are decorated in the three lower storeys with round flutings.
The tower has often been compared with the Qutb Minar of Delhi, for its size and shape. But there is a difference between the two: whereas the various storeys of the Qutb Minar form a continuous tapering outline from its bottom to the top, the storeys of the present minar give a broken outline of the structure in receding shafts. The only other earlier example of its class in Indo-Muslim architecture appears to be the Chaubara of Bidar, which consists of a base and a receding storey. The fact that the plastering of the tower is in contradistinction to the sultanate style suggests Tughlaqian influence
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