March 03, 2018

I did not know that

From James Fenton's piece on Lockwood Kipling (Rudyard's father) in this week's New York Review of Books:
In India, when the Kiplings arrived in 1865, the buildings that had once struck Macauley as being so ill-kept had been mostly Palladian in design.  But after the revolt of 1857 the new style for public buildings in Bombay was Gothic, and the Bard catalogue tells us that "still, today, Mumbai can boast the world's finest assembly of Victorian Gothic architecture.

Library, University of Mumbai (1872)



BIS "Bombay Gothic": (link)

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