Mughal gardens : sources, places, representations, and prospects / edited by James L. Wescoat, Jr. and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Dumbarton Oaks
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture
Other Authors: Wescoat, James L., 1952-
Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [1996], ©1996.
Subjects:
Gardens, Mogul Empire > Congresses.
Gardens > India > Congresses.
Gardens > Pakistan > Congresses.
Genre:
Congresses.
Physical Description:288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Contents:
  • Sources, places, representations, and prospects : a perspective of Mughal gardens / James L. Wescoat, Jr., and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
  • 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.