An Imperial Vision
Subtitle: Indian Architecture and Britain's Raj
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: July 8, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780195656022
First sentence: Speaking before the Society of Arts in 1873 on architectural art in India, T. Roger Smith, recently returned from practice in Bombay, concluded his discussion by urging that "as our administration exhibits European justice, order, law, energy, and honour-and that in no hesitating or feeble way-so our buildings ought to hold up a high standard of European art.