The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c30.s1.49.1

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To the period between 1294 when ‘Alā-ud-dīn Khaljī invaded the country, and 1347, when Bahman established the Bahmanī dynasty, only two monuments can with confidence be ascribed, namely the *Jāmi‘ Masjid* at Daulatābād (circ. 1315) and the Deval Mosque at Bodhan of Muhammad Tughluq’s reign (1325–51). Neither of these structures, however, was anything more than an adaptation of a Hindu shrine, slightly altered to suit the new exigencies, and neither of them, therefore, has any real bearing on the history of local Islamic architecture. During this provincial period, however, much sound work must have been put by the Muhammadans into the fortification of strongholds such as Devagiri (Daulatābād) which they had wrested from the Hindus. Unfortunately, the military architecture of the Deccan has attracted little or no attention from archaeologists, and the data at present available are insufficient to enable us to discriminate with confidence between successive periods of building or to determine which parts are attributable to the Hindu founders, which to the provincial governors from Delhi and which to the Bahmanī, Qutb Shāhī or other dynasties that followed them.