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) v7.c44.3

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The great educationist Governor, late Sir Harcourt Butler, sanctioned the cost of publication of these volumes to be advanced from the public funds before the delegation of the writer to the Allahabad University. But he left to Sir Claude de la Fosse, who was the first Vice-Chancellor of the reconstructed Allahabad University for a few months, to settle the terms of the publications including the author's royalty and reward. Sir Harcourt was sorry to learn of the changes which had taken place since his retirement from India and was 'shocked' when he was told in London in 1933 that an Indian successor of Sir Claude, as the Head of the Education Department of the Government, actually questioned in an official correspondence 'the public importance of printing Indian Architectural researches.'