Quintin Craufurd

Quintin Craufurd (22 September 1743 – 23 November 1819) was a British author born at Kilwinning, Scotland.

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 * ...temples, called by the Europeans Pagodas are ... very numerous, especially In the southern provinces,  and some of them of such remote antiquity,  that no account is left, either in writing  or by tradition, when or by whom they  were erected. But the northern provinces  being first conquered, the feat of the  Mahomedan government fixed, and its  greatest force exerted in those parts ; most of the temples were destroyed, the images  of stone broken, and those of metal melted  to cover the floors of the mosques and  palaces, that the faithful Musulman  should have the satisfaction daily to trample on what had been held sacred by the Hindoo.
 * Sketches: chiefly relating to the history, religion, learning and manners, of the Hindoos" https://archive.org/stream/sketcheschieflyr01crau/sketcheschieflyr01crau_djvu.txt