It is true that in
most places the principal temples were desecrated or destroyed, and
were frequently converted into mosques.
9. The statement is much exaggerated. The Hindoo Rajas who paid
tribute to the Sultans of Delhi often maintained considerable courts
in populous towns.
10. This proposition, which is not true of Southern India at all,
applies only to secular buildings in Northern India. The temples of
Khajuraho, Mount Abu, and numberless other places, equal in
magnificence the architecture of the Muhammadans, or, indeed, that of
any people in the world.
11. The anthor's remarks seem likely to convey wrong notions. Very
few of the capitals of the Muhammadan viceroys and governors were new
foundations. Nearly all of them were ancient Hindoo towns adopted as
convenient official residences, and enlarged and beautified by the
new rulers, much of the old beauties being at the same time
destroyed. Fyzabad certainly was a new foundation of the Nawab Wazirs
of Oudh, but it lies so close to the extremely ancient city of
Ajodhya that it should rather be regarded as a Muhammadan extension
of that city.
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