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BOOKS AND AUTHORS THE BOMBA y MURAL pAINTINGS As readers of '' Islamic Culture " are aware, Captain Gladstone Solomon is an enthusiast for Indian art and Indian artists.
From the time of his appointment as Principal of the Bombay School Captain Solomon has been fighting, against heavy odds official and unofficial, for the right of Indian art students to.
The work consists of eight winged figures for the dome symbolising periods in Indian Art: · Sanchi, Gandhara, * Mural paintings of the Bombay School.
Iehan, and Modern "India ; and seven lunettes representing the arts : Drama, Painting, Architecture, Music, Dancing, Sculpture, Poetry.
There is nothing even to euggest that it is written by a missionary until we come to the last paragraph when, after courteous criticism of what he calls the New Muslim Apologetic-it-is not new, but in old days it was not predominant-and after mentioning the tendency of some modern Muslim writers to extol the personality of Muhammad (May God bless and keep him !) so as almost to rival the Christian adoration of' Jesus Christ (on whom be peace), he has written : " But it cannot be that honest, truth-seeking Muslims will continue indefinitely to 'refuse to face all the facts, and pursue a policy of evasion of the real issues of history and life, even though such investigation leads to the quest• ioning and study of the very sources of revelation itself.