A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c7.22

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But recent research has opened up rich stores of material immensely superior in quality, while modern scientific facilities render possible and easy the presentation of fairly adequate reproductions. The claims of Indian art must be judged upon the new evidence thus called, and if the illustrations to this book at all fulfil their purpose they will establish directly and without argument the long-continued existence of Fine Art in India and Ceylon. Critics are invited to shift their point of view and to make an effort to appreciate whatever of good there may be in Indian art, as they have already done for that of other Asiatic schools.