The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c13.30

c13.30

The design of these pyramidal monasteries was eminently adapted for the practical working of such a system. Indeed, if the prestige of the British Raj is not compromised by the borrowing of Indian ideas, it might be adapted (with the help of lifts, telephones, and imagination) to the uses of modern secular administration. It certainly would lend itself to the administrative principle that the highest official ranks should have the coolest places; and possibly it could be used as an architectural expedient for ensuring that full mental vigour in departmental heads which, in these degenerate days, can only be expected in Indian hill-stations.