A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.141

c8.141

The history of architecture in Ceylon remains to be written, the discussion of the subject in Fergusson's work, even in the new edition, being of little value. The chapter devoted to it in General de Beylié's treatise also is slight.⁷ The materials for such a history not being fully accessible at present, it is impossible for me to do more than indicate some of the more notable achievements of the island architects and specify the more conspicuous peculiarities which differentiate Ceylonese from Indian buildings, to which they are closely related.