Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.46

c7.46

As British influence and power extended, the credit of Indian art fell lower and lower. The Indian public works system, by creating a monopoly in Government buildings and prescribing for them a pseudo-classic or Gothic style, has deprived the Indian master-builder of his employment, degraded the noblest of all the arts into a common trade, and gone far to extinguish the living traditions of some of the finest architecture the world has seen.