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Garden and landscape practices in pre-colonial India: histories from the Deccan

Garden and landscape practices in pre-colonial India: histories from the Deccan
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ISBN 0415664934 (hbk.)
9780415664936 (hbk.)
Title Garden and landscape practices in pre-colonial India : histories from the Deccan / editors : Daud Ali, Emma J. Flatt
Publisher New Delhi ; Abingdon : Routledge, 2012
Physical desc. xxii, 201 p. ; col. ill., plans ; 25 cm.
Series Visual and media histories 2
Note "The articles in this volume emerged from a conference entitled Fragrance, symmetry and light: gardens and garden culture in the Deccan, held at the University of Hyderabad in January 2007" -- p. [1].
CBL illustrations: p. 89, fig. 4.5 (Per 124, f. 44b); p. [129], fig. In 31, f. 11a); p. 186, fig. 9.5 & 9.6 (In 02, f. 101a).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Daud Ali & Emma J. Flatt -- The use of garden imagery in early Indian Buddhism / Akira Shimada -- Botanical technology and garden culture in Somésvara's Mānasollāsa / Daud Ali -- Nature, dams, wells, and gardens: the route of water in and around Bidar / Klaus Rötzer and 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 Sāqīnāma / Sunil Sharma -- Heavenly gardens: astrology and magic in the garden culture of the medieval Deccan / Emma J. Flatt.
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 02
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 31
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 124
Landscape gardening -- India -- Deccan -- History
Gardens -- India -- Deccan -- History
Gardens, Mogul
Gardens in art
Gardens in literature
Landscapes -- India -- Deccan -- History
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