The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c10.64

c10.64

Similarly at the end of the 10th century, we see the emergence of the first strong political power centred on the soil of Gujarat with the Solankis of Anhilwad Patan. They re-united the whole region and their rule of three centuries was followed by the Sultans of Delhi and Gujarat with their capital at Ahmedabad. Thus the unity that was forged earlier, by nature, was finally consolidated. Is it strange, that the 11th century should mark the beginning of the old Gujarati from the Western Apabhramsa? It is during this period, which may be called its "Golden Age", that Gujarat developed its distinct provincial character in art and architecture and significantly produced a large mass of literature.¹ The artistic traditions of the Solankis were blended with the Muslim during the Gujarat Sultanate, and it gave rise to the fine Indo-Sarcenic architecture of Western India.