The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c30.2
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c30.2
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v3.c30.2
SELDOM in the history of mankind has the spectacle been witnessed of two civilisations, so vast and so strongly developed, yet so radically dissimilar as the Muhammadan and Hindu, meeting and mingling together. The very contrasts which existed between them, the wide divergences in their culture and their religions, make the history of their impact peculiarly instructive and lend an added interest to the art and above all to the architecture which their united genius called into being.