PREFACE ix 



in place of any words of my own, I trust I 

 may be forgiven for repeating two well-known 

 quotations — the first from Fergusson's Intro- 

 duction to his book, Indian Architecture : 

 " Architecture in India is still a living art, 

 practised on the principles which caused its 

 wonderful development in Europe in the twelfth 

 and thirteenth centuries ; and there, conse- 

 quently, and there alone, the student of architec- 

 ture has a chance of seeing the real principle of 

 the art in action." And the shrewd Bernier's 

 delightful dictum : " The citadel contains the 

 Seraglio and other royal edifices ; but you are 

 not to imagine that they are such buildings as 

 the Louvre or the Escurial. The edifices in the 

 Fort have nothing European in their structure ; 

 nor ought they, as I have already observed, to 

 resemble the architecture of France or Spain. 

 It is sufficient if they have that magnificence which 

 is suited to the climate." 



Surely no " magnificence " could be more 

 charmingly " suited to the climate " than that of 

 an Indian garden-palace. Those who, while sym- 

 pathetically inclined towards Indian art and its 

 aims, have yet confined themselves to the beaten 

 track in India, and would seem, therefore, to doubt 



