Main entry:

Mughal Gardens: Sources, Representations, Places, and Prospects (Symposium) (1992 : Washington, D.C.),

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [1996]
©1996

Description:

288 pages : black and white illustrations, black and white maps, black and white plans ; 29 cm.

Series:

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture ; XVI

Notes:
Papers presented at a symposium co-organized by Dumbarton Oaks and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and held in May 1992 in Washington, D.C.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Milo C. Beach -- 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 -- Afterword / James L. Westcoat, Jr., and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn.

Summary:

This volume presents the research of scholars from different disciplines who have a mutual interest in Mughal (Mogul) gardens. Their contributions cover the aesthetic and horticultural as well as social, economic, religious, and political dimensions of Mughal gardens.

Resources:
Internet Archive
Open Library

ISBN:

0884022358
9780884022350

Subject:

Gardens, Mughal Empire Congresses.
Gardens India Congresses.
Gardens Pakistan Congresses.
Jardins Inde Congrès.
21.74 landscape architecture and garden design.
Gardens.
Gardens, Mughal Empire.
Tuinarchitectuur.
Tuinen.
Mogol-rijk.
Jardins Pakistan Congrès.
Art moghol.

Form/genre:

proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Congresses (form)
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Wescoat, James L., 1952- editor.
Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim, editor.
Dumbarton Oaks, organizer.
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), organizer.
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (Series) ; 16.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 214756
Call No.: SB458.4 .M8 1996
Status: Available