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 xiv PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. only such additions from the accessible materials accumulated since 1876, as seemed requisite. The Archaeological Surveys have collected vast stores of drawings only a fraction of which has yet been published. Travellers too, influenced partly perhaps by the interest that Mr. Fergusson's volume had created, have published works that have added to our information. The great advances made in Indian Epigraphy and Palaeo- graphy during the same period have further enabled us to revise and fix more accurately the dates in the earlier chronology of India ; but this has not materially affected the author's chrono- metric scale of arrangement of the monuments, for where the dates have been somewhat altered, the relative places of the monuments have not required to be changed, only they have been better adjusted ; and in many cases Mr. Fergusson, in his later years, had accepted these corrections. For much valued aid and information my thanks are due to Mr. Henry Cousens, Superintendent of the Western India Archaeological Circle ; and to Mr. Alexander Rea of the Madras Circle, from both of whom I have received ungrudging assist- ance, relative to the districts under their charge. For Ceylon I am greatly indebted to Lord Stanmore and the Colonial Office, whilst Mr. J. G. Smither, late Govern- ment architect, and Mr. H. C. P. Bell, C.C.S., Archaeological Commissioner, very kindly have read the proofs and supplied important advice and material for the chapter on the archi- tecture of the Island. I owe thanks also for valued help to Babu Monmohan Chakravarti, M.A., relative to Orissa ; and among others to Mr. R. F. Chisholm, F.R.I.B.A. ; Mr. H. C. Fanshawe, C.S.I,; Dr. J. F. Fleet, C.I.E.; Professor Dr. H. Kern, Utrecht; the Right Honble. Ameer 'AH ; Mr. G. F. Williams, State Engineer, Udaypur ; Lieut. Fred. M. Bailey, Indian Army ; Mr. F. H. Andrews ; Dr. L. D. Barnett, and the Rev. Dr. Wm. Millar, C.I.E. To Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner and Co., I am indebted for the use of a number of woodcuts. The history of Indian Architecture has been extended from