Cave Temples of India

James Burgess (1832-1916), was born at Kirkmahoe in Dumfrirsshire, Scotland and was educated at Glasgow. He came to India in 1855 as a Professor of Mathematics in the Doveton College, Calcutta. Between the years 1868-1873, he was the Secretary of the Bombay Geographical Society. I n 1872, he started the Indian Antiquary, a journal of antiquarian research. In January 1874, he was appointed the Archaeological Surveyor and Reporter to the Government for Western India and in 1881 for Southern India. In March 1886, he became the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India and started a new journal Epigraphic Indica. He left India in 1889 to settle at Edinburgh. Among his various publications, the important ones are Elephant or Gharapuri (1871). The Temples of Sat run jay a (1869), Report on the Antiquities in the Bidar and Aurangabad Districts (1878), Reports on the Buddhist Cave Temples and their Inscriptions (1883), Report on the Elora Cave Temples and the their Inscriptions (1883), Report on the Elora Cave Temples and the Brahman cal and Jaina Caves in Western India (1883), Muhammad an Architecture in Gujarat (1896), Muhammad an Architecture of Ahmadabad, in two vols. (1900 and 1905), The Buddhist Stupas at Amravati and Jaggayyapeta (1887), Belgam and Kaldji Districts (1874), Kathiawad and Kachh (1876), etc. James Fergusson (1808-1886) was born at Ayr in Scotland and started his career as an indigo planter. His contribution to Indian studies is equated to the pioneering work of his contemporary Alexander Cunningham. He introduced in the study of Indian architecture typological classification of structures and fixing up their chronology on the basis of the dated examples. The following are some of his important works: Rock cut Temples of India (1845), The Palaces of Nineveh and Persepolis Restored-An Essay on Ancient Assyrian and Persian Architecture (1851), The Illustrated Handbook of Architecture, in two vols. (1855), Notes on the site of the Holy Sepulcher at Jerusalem (1861), Tree and Serpent Worship (1868), Rude Stone Monuments of Many Lands (1872), History of Indian and Eastern Architecture, in two vols. (1876).