A synthesis of indigeneous Indian forms and the religious and political needs of a new Muslim society . . . expand[s] our knowledge of pre-Mughal architecture and allow[s] the historian to place the buildings in a broader context of architecture in the eastern Islamic world.’ –Sheila S. Blair, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 1989 ‘It is an important study which throws much light on Islamic architecture and particularly on the Jain influences therein, a valuable contribution to the literature on Islamic architecture.