The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c30.s1.35

v3.c30.s1.35

These and many other monuments scattered through the Central India and Rājputāna States, though they can rarely boast the grandeur of contemporary buildings in the capital cities, are nevertheless of very real value in filling in *lacunae* in the history of the style to which they belong. As more attention comes to be paid to them it will be possible to trace much more accurately than at present the streams of influence that issued from Delhi, Mālwa and Gujarāt and mingled or conflicted one with the other in the contested territories between these three kingdoms; and it will also be possible to gauge more precisely the part played by the neighbouring Hindu principalities in the shaping of the Muslim styles.