The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c6.26

c6.26

If Indian art throws any light upon Indian history, religion, sociology and the inner working of the Indian mind, it demands the careful study of all who are concerned in the administration of India, whatever their functions may be. One of the greatest artists of our age, M. Rodin, has truly said that the word “artist” in its widest acceptation means the man who takes pleasure in his work. My aims as an art teacher will be fulfilled if through my interpretations of Indian art I succeed in adding a new intellectual pleasure to Anglo-Indian work and in strengthening the bonds of sympathy between the Eastern and Western branches of that great Aryan family which has done so much for the advancement of civilisation.