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TITLE: Illustrations of Buildings near Muttra and Agra
SUBTITLE: Showing the Mixed Hindu-Mahomedan Style of Upper India. Prepared at the India museum under the authority of the secretary of state for India in council, from photographs, plans, and drawings taken by order of the government of India, by Henry Hardy Cole, lieutenant, R.E., late superintendent, Archæological survey of India, North-western Provinces.
AUTHOR: Henry Hardy Cole
PUBLISHER: India office, sold by W. H. Allen and Co.
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1873
BINDING: Contemporary calf-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt
NO.OF PAGES: 116 pages including 42 photographed plates and 12 lithographed plates and plans
Height: 33.8 cm
Width: 25 cm
Depth: 2.5 cm
The full-sized Plans and Drawings, here represented by reduced Lithographs, were commenced at Bindrabund, in the North-western Provinces of India, in February 1869.
Two native surveyors, Thakoor Dass and Habeeb-oo-lah, were employed in obtaining measurements of the Temples and buildings and assisted HH Cole in preparing pencil drawings on the spot. On Mr Cole's return to England in the summer of 1869, these drawings were completed and reduced by means of photolithography.
The Reverend Mr Simpson, Chaplain of Muttra, was appointed by the Government of the North-western Provinces to take photographs, and by a mutual arrangement he visited Mr Cole's camps at Bindrabund, Deeg, Goverdhun, and Futtehpore Sikree, in order to agree on the points of view which were most desirable to obtain in the buildings.
The Mixed Hindu-Mahomedan style of Upper India was evolved under somewhat singular circumstances, and it is an illustration of the various forms it assumed that the Photographs and Plans of this work were produced.
Previous to the sixteenth century, Mahomedan Princes had not refrained from persecuting the idolatrous Hindus, and it was not until Akbar's reign that a more merciful policy was inaugurated, which, with other good results, encouraged the arts of both races, and gave rise to a mixed style in the buildings of that period.
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