Courtyard of Indian Pavilion

The Indian Pavilion at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition (Wembley) was designed as a major “showpiece” building in an Indo‑Saracenic/Mughal-revival idiom, explicitly modelled on iconic North Indian monuments (often described as drawing on the Jama Masjid, Delhi and the Taj Mahal, Agra). It was meant to impress visually and commercially. Institutional commentary on Wembley material also notes that the exhibition attracted critique in the 1920s about exploitation and the imperial “message,” with an official India-commission report (1925) attempting to rebut such perceptions.