Garden and Landscape Practices in Pre-colonial India: Histories from the Deccan, 1st Edition – FULL INSTANT DOWNLOAD | PDF DOCX EPUB

Ebook Name: Garden and Landscape Practices in Pre-colonial India: Histories from the Deccan
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN-13: 9780415664936
ISBN-10: 0415664934
Addition ISBN: 9781003157878, 9781138659865, 9781000058628, 9781000365894, 9781000366112, 9781000058475, 9781000058321, 1000365670, 9781000365672
Author(s): Daud Ali; Emma J. Flatt, Publisher: Routledge India, Copyright: 2012

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.