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Archæological Survey of India (New Imperial Series) Volume XXIV. Western India. Muhammadan Architecture of Ahmadabad

1900

But whereas the former treated largely of the remains of the fourteenth century when the country was under governors appointed by the emperors of Dehli the present takes account of the works of the earlier Atunad Shithi Sultans of Gujarat and exclusively of those erected in their capital and its suburbs from the foundation of Ahmadabad in A. D. 1412 to 1520. [...] OF the history of Gujarat a brief outline has been given in the first chapter of the previous volume.' Under the Hindu kings of the Solaitki dynasty the country was rich and populous but too frequently the scene of incursions from its neighbours and of retaliatory wars. [...] To the east were the states of Mar held by the Rathor Rajputs and Champaner held by the Gohels ; in the centre towards &nand the Waghelas representatives of Kama still possessed much of the country ; and to this day Sir T. C. Hope informs us the royal line of Gujarat which lost their kingdom at the beginning of the fourteenth century still survives in the person of the chief of &wand a pri [...] The ladies who from the battlements watched the fight with straining eyes at once leaped into the well of the fort and perished; The chief himself was soon afterwards slain nt the gate of R Anpur and thus spared the pain of seeing his desolated home."' In A. D."1482 one of Mahmad's officers on the Champaner frontier made several forays into the Hindu territory Reprisals were made and the Gu [...] indeed almost the last and not the least beautiful of the stone mosques had been erected and subsequent buildings are mostly in the plainer and more massive style of the Pathans ; but the viceroys maintained a splendid court and spared no pains to increase the commerce and general prosperity of the city.
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Frontmatter
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Chapter I. Historical
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Chapter II. Ahmâd Shah’s Old Masjidu’l-Jâmi
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Chapter III. Haibat Khân’s Masjid
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Chapter IV. Mosque of Sayyad Âlam
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Chapter V. The Triple Gateway or Tîn Darwâza
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Chapter VI. Masjid of Malik Âlam at Dâni Limdi
26-29 Jas Burgess view
Chapter VII. The Jâmî Masjid
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Chapter VIII. Sultan Ahmad’s Tomb
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Chapter IX. Tombs of the Queens or Rânî Ka Hâjirâ
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Chapter X. Sîdi Sayyad’s Masjid
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Chapter XI. Qutbu’d-Dîn Shâh’s Masjid
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Chapter XII. Sarkhej Buildings
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Chapter XIII. The Kânkariyâ Tank
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Chapter XIV. Malik Sha’bân’s Rauza and Masjid
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Chapter XV. Darya Khân’s Rauza
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Chapter XVI. Batwa or Vatuva
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Chapter XVII. Mosque and Tomb of Bîbî Achut Kukî
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Chapter XVIII. Mosques of Sayyad ‘Usmân At Usmânpur and of Miyan Khân Chishti Near Shâhibâgh
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Chapter XIX. Râjapur Mosque
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Chapter XX. Mosques of Sakar Khân Dastûr Khân and Shâh Fazl
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Chapter XXI. Muhâfi Z Khân’s Masjid
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Chapter XXII. Shâh Khûb Sayyad’s Masjid
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Chapter XXIII. Masjid and Rauza of Rânî Sîparî
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Backmatter
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