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Title: India and the future
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Archer, William, 1856-1924
Subjects: Civilization, Indian (East Indian)
Publisher: London, Hutchinson
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ilding of remarkable beauty or (if Imay so phrase it) of rational magnificence, it is almostcertain to be distinctively Muhammadan. Among re-ligious edifices, I can think of no exception to this rule.The exceptions that occur to me are certain Hindupalaces, chiefly in Rajputana, from which, however,Muslim and even European influences are by no meansexcluded. The giant temples of Southern India are no doubtmarvels of massive construction, and have often a sortof titantic impressiveness. They seem as though theymight have been built by the rakshasas of the Ramayana.But of unity, clarity, nobility of design they show no trace.Everything is ponderous, everything is overwrought.Their most prominent features, the pyramidal gopuras, orgate-towers, swarming—one might almost say writhing—with contorted semi-human figures, are surely as sense-less as anything in architecture. Here and there someindividual detail, such as the colonnade around a sacred * Indian Architecture, pp. 31 and i^.224
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Hindu ArcSiteclure : A Temple, Ajmir. (To face p. 224.

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