Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Method of Transliteration vii
4. Abbreviations viii
5. CHAPTER ONE Introduction 1
6. CHAPTER TWO History 14
7. CHAPTER THREE The Three Towns 101
8. CHAPTER FOUR Early Monuments: Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries 163
9. CHAPTER FIVE Mosques and Minarets 239
10. CHAPTER SIX The Chatrī: its Origin, its Basic Forms and its Variants in Bayana 330
11. CHAPTER SEVEN Waterworks 369
12. CHAPTER EIGHT Domestic Architecture 415
13. CHAPTER NINE Mansions, Semi-public Buildings and Later Monuments 461
14. CHAPTER TEN Historic Edifices in the Towns and Villages of the Bayana Region 490
15. CHAPTER ELEVEN Epilogue 533
16. APPENDIX I Historical Inscriptions of Bayana and its Region 537
17. APPENDIX II The Genealogy of the Auḥadīs of Bayana 610
18. APPENDIX III Funerary Chatrīs and Other Tombs 611
19. Bibliography 706
20. Index 720