Papers presented at the 16th Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, co-organized by Dumbarton Oaks and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and held in May, 1992. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The historiography of Mughal gardens / John F. Richards. Memory and ideology in the Timurid garden / Thomas W. Lentz -- Gardens that Babur did not like : landscape, water, and architecture for the sultans of Delhi / Anthony Welch -- "But what a happiness to have known Babur!: / Elizabeth B. Moynihan -- Notes on the economic and social aspects of Mughal gardens / Irfan Habib -- Gardens, urbanization, and urbanism in Mughal Lahore : 1526-1657 / James L. Wescoat, Jr. -- The Khanah Bagh in Mughal India : house gardens in the palaces and mansions of the great men of Shahjahanabad / Stephen P. Blake -- The Shahdara gardens of Lahore / Michael Brand -- The garden of the Taj Mahal : a case study of Mughal architectural planning and symbolism / Wayne E. Begley -- Mughal gardens in Persian poetry / W.M. Thackston -- The historiography of Mughal gardens / John F. Richards.
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