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models, have procured such instructions from Mr. Robinson, a distinguished architect, 

 as will enable them to collect the materials necessary for such an object. 



With respect to the state of Sculpture, as well in those parts of India where the 

 Hindoo religion, as in those where the Buddhic religion prevails, the Committee will be 

 able to derive information from his Highness the Raja of Tanjore,* from the collection of 

 drawings made by the late Col. Mackenzie, and from the models presented to the Society 

 by Sir Alexander Johnston. 



With respect to the art of Painting in India, the Committee are endeavouring to 

 collect specimens of it, both antient and modern, from different parts of Asia, with a 

 view of tracing the progress of that art in India from the earliest times to the present 

 period, arid explaining the manner in which the natives of the country have from time 

 to time made use of it for the purpose of influencing the religious, the moral, and the 

 political conduct of their countrymen. 



The Committee have directed their attention to a collection of drawings, and to 

 some paintings on a large wooden box, presented to the Society by Sir Alexander 

 Johnston : the former were executed by a Cingalese in Ceylon ; the latter by a Hindoo 

 artist in the province of Madura in the peninsula of India in the seventeenth centurj-. 

 The box belonged to Mongama, who was Ranee or Queen of Madura at that time. 

 The paintings on the box were executed by her direction, and represent some of the 

 principal trades in her country, for the purpose, it is said, of reminding her (the box 

 being constantly before her, and containing her state papers) of the national impor- 

 tance of every description of manufacture and trade. 



6<A. The History of the People of India, as illustrated by their different Laws, their 

 different Castes, and their different Tenures of Land. 

 With respect to iheir laws, the Committee liave considered them under four 

 separate heads : those of the Buddhists, those of the Hindoos, those of the Maho- 

 medans, and those of the maritime people of Asia. The Committee have referred 

 for information upon this subject to printed and to written books, to the decisions 

 of courts of justice, and to the collections of customs in different parts of India. 

 The works to which the Committee have referred are some of them in European, 

 and some in Oriental languages. The decisions are those of the several Zillah, Pro- 

 vincial, and Sudder Adawlut Courts in India, and of the King in Council in England. 



* In consequence of the enlightened patronage which this prince, himself the ikvc of the celebrated 

 missionary Schwartz, has always given to the arts of Europe, particularly to that of sculpture, Sir 

 Alexander Johnston, who, while he was at Tanjore, had an opportunity of knowing his sentiments upon 

 the subject, sent him out, at the same time with his diploma of Honorary Member of the Royal Asiatic 

 Society, as a mark of respect from his relative, the Hon. Mrs. Damer, a colossal bust, executed by herself 

 in bronze, of the late Lord Nelson. The English translation of the letter which his Highness wrote to 

 the Society acknowledging the receipt of the diploma and the bust is appended to this Report, and affords 

 a decisive proof of the sentiments which his Highness entertains of the great advantages which may be 

 derived by the natives of India from the establishment of the Royal Asiatic Society. 



