A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.114

c18.114

In many places modern architects have effected a graceful compromise between the Hindu and Muhammadan styles by combining Persian domes with Bengali bent cornices and Hindu or half-Hindu columns. Excellent examples of this pretty though feeble style, as used for both civil and religious buildings, are to be seen at Mathurā and in hundreds of other localities.² It is quite impossible to tell merely from inspection of the architecture whether a building is intended for Muslim or Hindu use. The modern part of the ancient shrine of Sayyid Sālār in Northern Oudh (Fig. 244) is a good example of the style in its more Muhammadan form.