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 Southern India. And the Gothic tapestries representing the hunting scenes of a Duke of Burgundy suggest at the very first sight the aspects of medieval Hindu castles and the figures and headdresses of the Indo-Saracenic Moghul styles.

It may sometimes be difficult for a non-Hindu fully to appreciate the images and paintings of India because their conventions and motifs are so peculiarly Hindu. Exactly the same difficulty arises with regard to Western art. Who but a Christian can find inspiration in a Last Supper or a Holy Family or a God dividing light from darkness? For that matter, even the Aeneid would be unintelligible to the modern Eur-American lovers of poetry unless they made it a point to study Roman history. Nay, a well-educated