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] Date Posted: 19:18:59 10/26/04 Tue In reply to: Jim (Canada) 's message, "1960's planners in Toronto" on 17:13:14 10/26/04 Tue It's not as bizarre as what they did in India in the 1950s. A fair majority of British structures in the major cities had royal coats of arms, reliefs depicting the King-Emperors etc. etc. They couldn't easily get rid of them, but didn't want them cluttering up their independent country's towns. So, most of them were picked up and moved to the suburban parks and what-not. Walking through Victoria Gardens in Bangalore, or the MG Gardens outside Calcutta, you occasionally come round a clump of pipal or gum trees and find the front only of a large building over the doorframe of which is a seven foot statue of Queen Vic. These Indian public parks have become a graveyard for imperial statuary, and walking through deserted bibighars or phulavaariya is rather sad... rather like that poem by Shelley: "And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair'. Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away." But I grow sentimental... [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |