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little white pavilions. Poor timid creatures, it 

 was a tantalising Paradise for them, for there 

 they were enclosed in the midst of an irrigated 

 kitchen garden full of vegetables and herbs, 

 where the tempting lush green leaves grew close 

 against the pillars of their cages. 



The garden " koti " grew day by day. Every 

 evening on the road outside the little buggies 

 whirled along carrying their drivers to tea and 

 tennis at the cheery Anglo-Indian club. One 

 heard various opinions on the new garden seen 

 over the low wall with its ugly iron railing. 

 Quaint, queer, inexplicable, or frankly hideous 

 were the bewildered comments ; but this garden, 

 with its lovely parterres filled with white and 

 yellow flowers, its marble shrines, its playing 

 fields, and captive deer, if not artistically a com- 

 plete success, was at least the most interesting 

 experiment in the making of a modern Indian 

 garden I had seen. 



It was evident that the builder was trying to 

 adapt Eastern symbols to Western fashions and 

 ideas. It is not surprising to find Indians copying 

 European styles even when their own are sounder 

 and more suitable, as they naturally wish to 

 imitate the arts of a nation which has proved 



