The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c15.45

c15.45

The Indian master-builders of the eighth century have only taken some of the foreign suggestions brought in by the Gandharan craftsmen, and used them with much better effect than the latter did. An exact parallel to this is to be found in the way in which modern Indian builders sometimes adapt—when they are allowed to work in their own way—Public Works "Gothic" and "Classic" designs, reanimating the dry bones of Western academic formularies with the inspiration of real art.¹