Arts and Crafts of India

This book was perhaps the first attempt to have a systematic sequence, under certain classes, divisions, and sections, to greatly simplify inspection and facilitate future research on Indian art traditions. The writer has personally experienced, during many year’s association with the crafts of India, the greatest inconvenience from not be possessed of a brief descriptive catalogue that afforded a sufficiently comprehensive account to admit of identification of each style of Indian work. In pursuance of this necessity, the Endeavour has been made to propose a classification which shall be directly suited to the collections now on view in Indian museums.