The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c8.18

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c8.18

The progressive European, rather than learn anything from the Hindu builder, endures patiently the leaky roofs which the British engineer puts over his head in the plains of Bengal. It is enough for him that they are British, or as near British as the ignorant Hindu can make them.¹

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