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DRAVIDIAN STYLE.
Book III.
in stone from stone corbels. No ornament now appears above
the basement, and how the exterior of the building was first
244.
South Elevation of Chandragiri Palace.
245. Plan of the ground floor of Chandragiri Palace.
(From Drawings by R. F. Chisholm, F.R.I.B.A.) Scale 50 ft. to 1 in.
finished it would be lfard to say: we may be certain that it
was originally much finer than it now exists.1
Even the mixed style above mentioned, however, died out
wherever the Europeans settled, or their influence extended.
The modern palaces of the Nawabs of the Karnatik, of the Rajas
of R&mnad and Travankor, are all in the bastard Italian style,
adopted by the Nawabs of Lucknow and the Babus of Calcutta.
Sometimes, it must be confessed, the buildings are imposing
from their mass, and picturesque from their variety of outline,
but the details are always detestable; first, from being bad
copies of a style that was not understood or appreciated, but
also, generally, from their being unsuited for the use to which
1 Fuller details will be found in a [ F.R.I.B.A., in the ‘ Indian Antiquary,
paper illustrated by plans, elevations j vol xii. (1883), pp. 295-296.
and sections, by Mr R. F. Chisholm, j
DRAVIDIAN STYLE.
Book III.
in stone from stone corbels. No ornament now appears above
the basement, and how the exterior of the building was first
244.
South Elevation of Chandragiri Palace.
245. Plan of the ground floor of Chandragiri Palace.
(From Drawings by R. F. Chisholm, F.R.I.B.A.) Scale 50 ft. to 1 in.
finished it would be lfard to say: we may be certain that it
was originally much finer than it now exists.1
Even the mixed style above mentioned, however, died out
wherever the Europeans settled, or their influence extended.
The modern palaces of the Nawabs of the Karnatik, of the Rajas
of R&mnad and Travankor, are all in the bastard Italian style,
adopted by the Nawabs of Lucknow and the Babus of Calcutta.
Sometimes, it must be confessed, the buildings are imposing
from their mass, and picturesque from their variety of outline,
but the details are always detestable; first, from being bad
copies of a style that was not understood or appreciated, but
also, generally, from their being unsuited for the use to which
1 Fuller details will be found in a [ F.R.I.B.A., in the ‘ Indian Antiquary,
paper illustrated by plans, elevations j vol xii. (1883), pp. 295-296.
and sections, by Mr R. F. Chisholm, j