Islamic India - Architecture of the World

This volume deals with a certain period in the history of Indian architecture: with the buildings erected during the reigns of the Islamic sultans and emperors who ruled over the people of the sub-continent between the 10th and 19th centuries. None of these rulers was an Indian. Their religion differed from that of native Hindus; they dressed differently from them and spoke a foreign tongue. Most of the natives regarded this alien rule as a burdensome yoke. The architecture of the Indo-Islamic rulers originated in Persia. We shall be particularly concerned here with the fusion that took place between Islamic and Hindu architectural concepts, since this helps to explain the various stages through which the Indo-Islamic style passed in the course of its evolution...