Description
The present volume of the Archaeological Survey of Western India is devoted to the description of the antiquarian remains in Northern Gujarat, principally within the dominions of His Highness the Gaikwad of Baroda. The antiquities of Dabhoi in the west of the same territory were illustrated and described in a separate work published in 1888 by order of His Highness, and subsequently translated and republished in Gujarati. The remains now dealt with were surveyed by Henry Cousens during two tours made in the cold seasons of 188687 and 188990, when the drawings and photographs illustrating this volume were prepared. The use of the notes and descriptive outlines collected by Cousens and partly engrossed in the Revised Lists of Antiquarian Remains in the Bombay Presidency (1897). He had also personal local knowledge of the principal places surveyed, obtained during two private tours in December 1869 and December 1872, of which the materials collected were partly embodied in Notes of a Visit to Gujarat (1870) and in the text of a volume of Photographs of Architecture and Scenery in Gujarat and Rajputana (1874). The materials thus accumulated have been arranged and supplemented by historical, geographical, mythological, and other information from various sources, to which references have been made throughout this book.
