History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v2.c26.s2.4

v2.c26.s2.4

¹ This colonnade and its back wall were, “with a strange want of discrimination, reconstructed” by Major R. Smith, Executive Engineer, early in last century, who used the pillars of Altamsh’s extension in front of the eastern gate of the mosque, for the purpose. And even the windows of Qutbu-d-Dîn’s work did not escape “re-arrangement at the same time.”—Carr Stephen’s ‘Archæology of Delhi,’ p. 43 note.