Manasara Series (I. A Dictionary of Hindu Architecture; II. Indian Architecture according to Manasara-Shilpashastra; III. Manasara on Architecture and Sculpture: Sanskrit Text; IV. Architecture of Manasara: Translation; V. Architecture of Manasara: Illustrations; VI. Hindu Architecture in India and Abroad; VII. An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture) v6.c41.s25.257

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In what sense can architecture be 'the mother of all arts'? What sort of architecture was 'most assiduously cultivated in India through the centuries' from 3000 B.C.? Which 'wonderfully magnificent structures' were carried from generation to generation as a caste-craft and going back to over 2000 years? How were the Turkish, the Persian, and the Mogul architectures 'merged into the Indian one'? Where has the 'advent of the English' destroyed the 'Indian domestic and religious architecture,' instead of the English architecture also being merged into the Indian one? And, lastly, why the 'craze for the new things of the West' 'was going' to convert 'British India' into 'a province of Europe in matters of architecture and art'? These are some of the most important questions which, raised though in an advertisement, should be clearly understood by all interested in the subject before an intelligent interest can be taken in the revival or introduction of an exclusively Indian architecture.