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Excerpt from A Monograph on Wood Carving in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh The arts of India are the illustration of the religious life of the Hindus, as that life was already organized in full perfection under the Code of Manu, B. C. 900-300... Every detail of Indian decoration has a religious meaning, and the ails of India will never be rightly understood until these are brought to their study, not only the sensibility which can appreciate them at first sight, but a familiar acquaintance with the character and subjects of the religious poetry, national legends, and mythological scriptures that have always "been their inspiration and of which they are the perfected imagery." By this statement Sir George Birdwood commits himself to the opinion that Indian art means Hindu art, and that none but Pandits are competent to comprehend and expound its canons: in short, that as far as Indian art is concerned, Greek, Scythian, Arab, Pathdn, Persian, and Mughal might never have existed. This unfortunate contention has been subjected to many criticisms, and those who are inclined to side with the critics in maintaining that the traditionary arts of India have been greatly influenced by foreign ideas will find no better refutation of Sir George Birdwood's theory than the state of the arts, and notably of wood-carving, in the United Provinces. Lying in the path of Muhammadan invasion and close to the centre of the Mughal dominion, tho United Provinces and the Panjab felt the full effects of conquest, Partly owing to the force of example and partly to the system of vexatious Hindu ordinances, the traditional principles of Hindu art lost their hold on the inhabitants. The result is specially noticeable in wood-carving, sculpture, and architecture. To find characteristic Hindu work it is necessary to go further afield to regions where indigenous art was safeguarded by geographical conditions-to Nepal or Southern India. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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