The present work, embracing architecture, sculpture and painting in its scope, aims at giving such a concise survey of the whole subject, free from dry technicalities, as will interest both the student and general reader, and serve as a useful handbook for travellers in India. At the same time it attempts a solution of several interesting problems which have exercised the minds of archaeologists for many years, and gives the results of further researches in a field which still offers unlimited scope for the art student.