Annual Report of the Archæological Survey of India. 1917-18

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Annual Report of the Archæological Survey of India. 1917-18

1920

At the Taj itself the only items of work this year were the shiftinof the lamp-stands provided at the Taj forecourt (a measure entailed by an alteration in the approach road) and the removal of certain modern masonry watercourses formerly built along the edge of the causeways in the garden so that now the original sides can be again exposed to view. [...] The pavilion in the west wall in the centre of the first terrace was put into needed repair and the bulged wall of the stair of the little Hammam in the east wall of the middle terrace was rebuilt. [...] The repair of certain of the Baradaries and the causways of the middle terrace about the central tank was necessitated through damage caused by the felling of the mango trees preliminary to the layout of this terrace as a rose-garden. [...] In the Delhi Fort some minor alterations in the design' of the stone water-channels and the causeway in the Hayat Bakhsh garden were Carried out to permit of their being more easily crossed by visitors while in the Diwan-i-Khas the repair of a fractured panel of the inlaid dado of one of the piers was taken in hand. [...] Attention was also given to the tombs themselves and to the floor of the mausoleum and the flooring of the outside platform was renewed while the side walls and the steps of the same were also repaired where necessary.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
75
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100130
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iii D. B. Spooner view
Frontmatter
i-ii D. B. Spooner view
Annual Report of the. Director-General of Archæológy for the year 1917-18
1-39 D. B. Spooner view
Appendix
40-53 D. B. Spooner view
Backmatter
i-xvii unknown view

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