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DRAVIDIAN STYLE. BOOK III. in stone from stone corbels. No ornament now appears above the basement, and how the exterior of the building was first 244. South Elevation of Chandragiri Palace. 245. Plan of the ground floor of Chandragiri Palace. (From Drawings by R. F. Chisholm, F.R.I.B.A.) Scale 50 ft. to i in. finished it would be hard to say : we may be certain that it was originally much finer than it now exists. 1 Even the mixed style above mentioned, however, died out wherever the Europeans settled, or their influence extended. The modern palaces of the Nawabs of the Karnatik, of the Rajas of Ramnad and Travankor, are all in the bastard Italian style, adopted by the Nawabs of Lucknow and the Babus of Calcutta. Sometimes, it must be confessed, the buildings are imposing from their mass, and picturesque from their variety of outline, but the details are always detestable ; first, from being bad copies of a style that was not understood or appreciated, but also, generally, from their being unsuited for the use to which 1 Fuller details will be found in a paper illustrated by plans, elevations and sections, by Mr R. F. Chisholm, F.R.I.B.A., in the 'Indian Antiquary,' vol xii. (1883), pp. 295-296.