The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c30.s1.57

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The Persianising tendency visible in much of the architecture of the Bahmanīs persisted, though in a less degree, under their successors, the ‘Imād Shāhīs of Berar, the Barīd Shāhīs of Bīdar, the ‘Ādil Shāhīs of Bījāpur, and the Qutb Shāhīs of Golconda, whose founder, Sultān Qulī was himself a Turk from Persia and endowed with that peculiar sympathy for ultra refinement in art and literature which belongs to the Persian temperament. By the end of the fifteenth century, however, the latent art of the Deccan was reasserting itself in increasing strength and when, in the following century, the ‘Ādil Shāhīs set about their magnificent monuments at Bījāpur and freely employed Indian artists and craftsmen on their construction, it was inevitable that Indian genius should rise superior to foreign influence and stamp itself more and more deeply on these creations. This later phase of Deccan architecture, however, when the style was attaining its full maturity, belongs to a subsequent period and to another volume of this history. To another volume also must be reserved our description of the monuments of the Fārūqī kings of Khāndesh at Thalner and Burhānpur, though it may be mentioned in passing that the few that have survived at the former place, including the inscribed tomb of Mīrān Mubārak I (dec. 1457) are strikingly akin in style to the monuments of Māndū.