344 INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



the end of the year quite a transformation had been effected. In 

 the Punjab a grant of Rs. 38,000 was allotted out of the Govern- 

 ment of India grant, and Lieutenant Abbott, R.E., was placed in 

 charge of the operations, which consisted of the restoration of 

 various important monuments and buildings at Lahore, Delhi, and 

 in the Jalandhar district. Excavations were also carried out in the 

 Yusufzai district, north-east of Peshawar, and several new 

 sculptures, illustrative of the Graeco-Baktrian style of art were 

 brought to light. Illustrations of some of these are appended 

 to Major Cole's report. In the North-West Provinces, the opera- 

 tions were mainly entrusted to Mr. Heath, who made many 

 useful restorations in the Fort of Agra, at Akbar's tomb at 

 Sikandra, at Fathepur-Sikri, Mathura,, and Brindaban ;* and in the 

 Nizam's dominions a report was obtained from the Sadr Talukdar 

 promising to take steps to effect several works of restoration at 

 Kalburga and other places. 



Major Cole's third Reportf was the last of the Series, for in 1883 

 the Government of India decided to entrust the work of preserving 

 buildings and monuments of importance to the Local Governments, 

 who were also desired by the Government of IndiaJ to take 

 up the preparation of the lists of ancient monuments, dividing them 

 into three categories : — 



I. Those monuments which form their present condition and 



historical or archaeological value ought to be maintained in 

 permanent good repair. 



II. Those monuments which it is now only possible or desirable 



to save from further decay by such minor measures as the 

 eradication of vegetation, the exclusion of water from the 

 walls, and the like. 



* Mathura and Brindaban have been treated in scholarly detail in " Mathura : a 

 District Memoir," by P. S. Growse, B.C.S., M.A., Oxon., C.I.E., second edition 

 (N. \\ . L'rovs. aud Oudh Government Press, 1880). 



f Published at Calcutta in 1885. Major Cole also engaged in survey work, and 

 obtained sanction for a grant of Rs. 5.000 towards reproducing some of the drawings 

 made. But great expense was incurred by the French firm entrusted with the work, 

 and alter 42,000 francs had been spent on 61 heliogravure photographs and 42 

 lithographs, further expenditure was stopped by order of Government. The drawings 

 ■were distributed in 10 folio parts, without title page. 



£ Resolution of Home Department (Archaeology) No. 3 — 168 — 83, dated Calcutta, 

 26th November, 1883. 



