[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) › c12.197 # Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.197 Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.197 - **Language:** English ### [c12.197](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.197) If, indeed, the fires which kindled Indian art should have sunk so low that they could be extinguished by the intellectual arrogance of a Macaulay or the cold contempt of ignorant Philistinism—if mere administrative blunders could entirely suppress them—we might fairly think it a matter of small importance for India to attempt to keep her art-traditions alive. There is a new spirit abroad in India to-day; the West has roused the East from its lethargic torpor, and in that new spirit we may rest content and find our complete justification. But it would be a fatal error if we deluded ourselves into the belief that the spirit of Indian civilisation, which only three centuries ago—a few moments to the oriental mind—ruled over one of the great empires of the world, will now be supplanted by the spirit of the West; that India will forget entirely her great thought-heritage and be content to let purely Western ideas govern her future destiny. - [Previous: c12.194](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.194) - [Next: c12.198](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.198) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.197](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c12.197) · Pramāṇa