Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.183

c12.183

The fact that the best students of these schools, during the fifty years the system has been in force, have never, with the rarest exceptions, produced any original work which would be considered tenth-rate in Europe, has never suggested that the system is wholly inartistic and educationally false and unsound. Departmentally, the failure of it is so much more satisfactorily explained by the theory of the inferiority of the Indian intellect, and the difficulty of effecting any radical reform in it has been increased tenfold by the acquiescence of practically all those Indians who call themselves "educated" (or those who have entered, or attempted to enter the University) in this theory of their peculiar constitutional defect.