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Indian Domestic 
 
 Architecture 
 
 A 
 
COPYRIGHT, 1885 
 
 LOCKWOOD DE FOREST 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 'N publishing the following examples of Indian Architecture, my object is to 
 interest all who care for art, and particularly to bring to their notice the 
 industries of wood and stone carving as applied to buildings. It rests 
 with us, both here and in Europe, to decide whether we are going to allow 
 arts to die out which have taken centuries, with all the advantages of the caste 
 system of the East, to bring to perfection. There is but one way of saving 
 them and that is, by giving employment to the best men in making the finest things. 
 My work in this direction, which has been going on for more than four years, is 
 no longer an experiment, and I can say with perfect confidence that better carving 
 has" never been made there, than I can have done at the present time. 
 
 The first three and the twenty-first and twenty-second plates give examples of 
 the Hindu houses of the north-western part of the Bombay Presidency. The others 
 show the Mahomedan influence in Rajaputana and northern India, though the details 
 and ornament are in some cases decidedly Hindu. 
 
 LocKwooD DE Forest. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Plate I. HOUSE AT AHMEDABAD, i6th CENTURY. 
 
 II. HOUSE AT AHMEDABAD, 17TH CENTURY. 
 
 " III. HOUSE AT AHMEDABAD, i8th CENTURY. 
 
 IV. COPY OF ONE OF THE BHUDDER WINDOWS AT AHMEDABAD, FULL SIZE 7 ft. x 
 10 FT. MADE BY MR. DE FOREST'S MEN AND SOLD TO THE SOUTH KENSINGTON 
 MUSEUM. 
 V. COPY OF THE SECOND BHUDDER WINDOW IN MR. DE FOREST'S POSSESSION IN 
 
 NEW YORK. 
 VI. FRONT OF A HOUSE AT AJMERE. 
 VII. TOMB OF THE TIME OF AKBAR, RED SANDSTONE. 
 VIII. MARBLE TRACERY IN THE PALACE, DELHI. 
 
 IX. WINDOW OF A HOUSE AT AMRITZA. 
 
 X. BRASS DOOR AT AMRITZA. 
 
 XL FRONT OF A HOUSE AT LAHORE. 
 XII. FRONT OF A HOUSE AT LAHORE. 
 
 XIII. FRONT OF A HOUSE AT LAHORE. 
 
 XIV. DOORWAY OF HOUSE, RED SANDSTONE, MULTAN. 
 XV. FRONT OF A HOUSE AT MULTAN. 
 
 XVI. DOOR OF HOUSE, MULTAN. 
 XVII. WINDOW OF TOMB IN TILE AT MULTAN. 
 XVIII. DOORWAY OF HOUSE, RED SANDSTONE, MULTAN. 
 XIX. MR. DE FOREST'S ROOMS, 9 EAST 17TH STREET, NEW YORK. 
 XX. MR. DE FOREST'S ROOMS, 9 EAST 17TH STREET, NEW YORK. 
 XXI. DOOR OF A HOUSE AT AHMEDABAD, 19TH CENTURY. 
 XXII. HOUSE AT AHMEDABAD, EARLY 17TH CENTURY. 
 
 XXIII. WINDOW OF A HOUSE AT LAHORE. 
 
 XXIV. TOMB OF ALA-UD-DIN KHILJI, OLD DELHI. 
 
 " XXV. MARBLE GATEWAY OF A TOMB AT GUALIOR. 
 
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 HOUSE AT AHMEDABAD, 16th CENTURY, 
 
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