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Born in Scotland, James Fergusson (1808-86) spent ten years as an indigo planter in India before embarking upon a second career as an architectural historian. Despite his lack of formal training, he became an expert in the field of Indian architecture, publishing Cave Temples of India and a History of Indian and Eastern Architecture, as well as The Holy Sepulchre and the Temple at Jerusalem, all reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. In this illustrated work of 1849, he considers beauty i
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- Author
- JAMES FERGUSSON
- Publisher
- publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781108078122
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Art, Architecture, Arts
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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