This book presents a set of new and innovative essays on
landscape and garden culture in precolonial India, with a special
focus on the Deccan. Most research to date has concentrated on the
comparatively well preserved gardens and built landscapes of the
celebrated Mughal empire, giving the impression that they have been
lacking in other times and regions. Not only does this volume
provide a corrective to such assumptions, it also moves away from
traditional art-historical approaches by posing new questions and
exploring hitherto neglected source materials.
The contributors understand gardens in two related ways: first
as real or imagined spaces and manipulated landscapes that are
often invested with pronounced semiotic density; and second as
congeries of institutions and practices with far-reaching social
ramifications for the constitution of elite societies. The essays
here present a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of garden
culture in precolonial India, and together suggest several new and
exciting directions of enquiry for those working in the Deccan,
Mughal India, and beyond.
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