Fig 6(c), [a sketch] that accompanied Curzon's communications regarding a few build- ings in Agra and Mandu

Curzon's address on the Ancient Monuments Bill suggested that it was the duty of the imperial government to restore all "the great remains or groups of remains with which this country is studded from one end to the other", which he had visited since he assumed charge,— "as a pilgrim at the shrine of beauty I have visited them, but as a priest in the temple of duty have I charged myself with their reverent custody and their studious repair". Indeed, he did visit and inspect an astoundingly large number of monuments across the subconti- nent where "detailed instructions were left on his departure extending to such items as cracked plas- ter and cobwebs on a staircase; at Ajanta he ordered the bats to be driven out of the caves and the insect nests scraped away" 

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