History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v2.c30.9

v2.c30.9

It is not easy now to determine how far this originality arose from the European descent of the ’Âdil Shâhîs and their avowed hatred of everything that belonged to the Hindûs, or whether it arose from any local circumstances, the value of which we can now hardly appreciate. The foreign origin of the ’Âdil Shâhî dynasty and their partiality for the Shîah form of Islâm prevailing in Persia, rather than the Sunnî, together with their ready employment of Persian officers, may probably have influenced their architecture, and led to that largeness and grandeur which characterised the Bijâpûr style.