Chapter XII, Hindu Buildings in the Sixteenth Century

IT would be impossible, without extending the scope of this work very largely, to attempt to give a summary of the many important buildings of the sixteenth century belonging to independent or semi-independent Hindu kingdoms. I must confine myself to a few typical ones illustrating the growth of Indian architecture of the period, which will show that Hindu builders, while providing for the architectural needs of the dominant political power, were not slow to use the experience they gained thereby for their own purposes.