A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c7.28

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Hindu art, including Jain and Buddhist in that comprehensive term, is the real Indian art. We can trace its development by the testimony of existing remains from the third century before Christ, and are assured that it had gone through a long process of unrecorded evolution for ages previous to the date of the earliest extant monument. The considerable intrinsic merits of Indo-Persian Muhammadan art being generally recognized, the controversy concerning the claims of India to possess real Fine Art must be concerned with the Hindu art discussed in Chapters II to XI of this work.