62 ATEET; Special Issue, Dec. 2014 ISSN 2249-1252         B  1     ) * 64 ’#’ ’$ 2#’ The advent of Sultanate dynasty in India signifies a unique cultural transformation in the region which resulted in developments in India which were unique and at par with the rest of the world, Architecture being one of them. This paper is an attempt to explore two initial experiments in Indo%Islamic Architecture of this dynasty in different regions of the medieval India and establish underlying relationship between both of them. The reason being that despite the two capitals of India: one in the North i.e. Delhi and the other in the South i.e. Daulatabad (presently in Aurangabad, Maharashtra) existed in two different regions, flourished and decayed in different times, and different rulers were involved in initialising, continuing and completing them, yet a closer inspection reveals similarities in their evolution and development with similar effects on the society and the history to follow. 74 &!& & !0 $## Both attempts were first built experiments of Indo% Islamic Architecture in their land which later became specimens for further expansion of similar cultural landscape and construction activities in their region. Though first introduction of Islam to the Indian subcontinent was much earlier in the 7 th century AD in the south where traders from the Arabian subcontinent came to trade and a few even settled there; and later in the Northern Indian region which witnessed Sufi saints and invaders like Mahmud Ghazni, but Muslims started ruling India much later in the 13 th century. Delhi (earlier known as Lalkot) which was under Prithviraj Chauhan, a Rajput king was re%established and made capital of India in 1206 AD by the first ruler of * Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture & Ekistics Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi