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Excerpt from The Industrial Art Manufactures of the Indian Empire During the few years we have been established our main object has been to remedy past errors, and much has already been done for the general improvement in the art work of the Indian Empire. From the beginning we have kept strictly to the original shapes, which best adapted the articles for their. Various purposes, rej ecting everything of inferior workmanship and finish. The wants of Euro pean and American buyers have also been studied, and articles are now being manufactured in the forms best adapted for Western use in furnishing and ornamenting houses, which wares were never pro duced by the Indian artisan. This can be seen by inspecting our 1arge and varied collection of art wares from all parts of India, ex hibited at the World's Fair. We have made a new departure from the hitherto usual plan of exhibiting' articles of interest to the hunt ers for curiosities alone, the goods placed on public View by us being calculated to increase their importation into America. The good work that we have done in India toward the revival of Indian art manufactures has been recognized by the Supreme Government of the Empire in selecting our firm to represent the art works'of the country at the World's Fair at Chicago. During the few brief intervals in work since undertaking the re presentation of a vast Empire, in the section of art manufactures at the great Exposition, the following few notes upon the art works of India have been compiled. This work must necessarily fall short of a treatise on the whole subject which would occupy so much longer time and fill a large volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.