Title: Garden and landscape practices in pre-colonial India : histories from the Deccan /
Authors: Ali, Daud.; Flatt, Emma J.; Ali, Daud,; Flatt, Emma J.,; Shimada, Akira; Rötzer, K.; Sohoni, Pushkar,; Inden, Ronald B.,; Wagoner, Phillip B., 1955-; Hutton, Deborah; Husain, Ali Akbar,; Sharma, Sunil,
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Gardens India Deccan History.; Landscape gardening India Deccan History.
Abstract: Contributed articles presented at the workshop at Central University of Hyderabad, 22-25 January 2007 titled fragrance, symmetry and light: the history of gardens and garden culture in the Deccan.
Contents: Introduction / Daud Ali, Emma J. Flatt -- The use of garden imagery in early Indian Buddhism / Akira Shimada -- Botanical technology and garden culture in Someśvara's Mānasollāsa / Daud Ali -- Nature, dams, wells, and gardens : the route of water in and around Bidar / Klaus Rötzer, Pushkar Sohoni -- Paradise on Earth : the Deccan Sultanates / Ronald Inden -- In Amīn Khān's garden : charitable gardens in Qutb Shāhi Andhra / Phillip B. Wagoner -- The use of imaginary landscapes in paintings from Bijapur / Deborah Hutton -- Reading gardens in Deccani court poetry : a reappraisal of Nusratī's Gulshan-i 'Ishq / Ali Akbar Husain -- The Nizamshahi Persianate garden in Zuhūrī's Sāquīnāma / Sunil Sharma -- Heavenly gardens : astrology and magic in the garden culture of the medieval Deccan / Emma J. Flatt.