[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908) › c12.170 # Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.170 Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.170 - **Language:** English ### [c12.170](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.170) If we adopted a purely Philistine attitude, declared that our mission was to set an example of what we are proud to call plain, practical, British common sense, we should at least have been consistent and straightforward. Or if we avowed that our task in India was only to protect the down-trodden pariah; to remove the barriers by which a selfish and corrupt hierarchy has prevented the intellectual and social advancement of the lower orders; to free the ryot from the bondage of the \*sowcar\*; to purify the administration and to hold the scales of justice even,—we might perhaps view with a quiet conscience the continuous degradation of Indian art, which we do next to nothing to arrest. - [Previous: c12.169](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.169) - [Next: c12.171](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.171) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.170](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.170) · Pramāṇa