The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c19.12

c19.12

The organisation of the Aryan village community remained intact in Southern India until the days of British rule. Râm Râz compiled his invaluable notes on Indian village and town planning from the traditional canons of South Indian craftsmen, and to the present day the art of Southern India, decadent as it generally is, yet retains more of the virility of the classic Indo-Aryan period than is generally found in those parts of India which remained longer subject to Muhammadan influence.