The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c18.42

c18.42

Orientalists, looking only at the outside of things, have worked with untiring zeal to show Greek influence in Indian art and literature, as a mark of Western superiority, without being able to realise where the true resemblances lie; just as the secret links which bind Greek and Gothic art together remain hidden from the book-learned student who sees the form but fails to grasp the inner spirit.