A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.4

c18.4

The history of Indo-Muhammadan art begins with the year A. D. 1200 in round numbers. Between 1193 and 1236 Muhammad of Ghōr, Kutb-ud-dīn Ībak, and Sultan Iyaltimish (Altamsh) had compelled all Northern India, including Bengal, to submit, more or less completely, to the Muslim government established at Delhi. The earliest Muhammadan monuments in India date from the reigns of the three princes named; the principal works of that time being the mosque at Ajmēr, the Kutb mosque and mīnār at Delhi, the gateway of the chief mosque at Budāon (A. D. 1223),¹ and the tomb of the Sultan Iyaltimish at Delhi.²