In a magnificent cultural tour, Raymond Head documents the continuous influence of Indian architectural and decorative style on the European sensibility from the seventeenth century to the present. Head's account begins with the founding of the East Indian Companies in the seventeenth century, when Indian visual ideas first found an outlet to the West. By the end of the eighteenth century, Indian forms directly influenced buildings. As Head demonstrates, over the next centuries prominent Western architects incorporates and interpreted Indian motifs in a variety of their work.