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Garden and landscape practices in pre-colonial India : Histories fro the deccan

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New Delhi Routledge 2012Description: 200p xixISBN:
  • 9780415664936
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 635.900000 ALI
Contents:
Table of contents Foreword Monica Juneja; Contents; Glossary; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction Daud Ali & Emma J. Flatt; 1. The Use of Garden Imagery in Early Indian Buddhism Akira Shimada; 2. Botanical Technology and Garden Culture in Somesvara's Manasollasa Daud Ali; 3. Nature, Dams, Wells and Gardens: The Route of Water in and around Bidar Klaus Rotzer & Pushkar Sohoni; 4. Paradise on Earth: The Deccan Sultanates Ronald Inden; 5. In Amin Khan's Garden: Charitable Gardens in Qutb Shahi Andhra Phillip B. Wagoner; 6. The Use of Imaginary Landscapes in Paintings from Bijapur Deborah Hutton; 7. Reading Gardens in Deccani Court Poetry: A Reappraisal of Nusrati's Gulshan-i Ishq Ali Akbar Husain; 8. The Nizamshahi Persianate Garden in Zuhuri's Saqinama Sunil Sharma; 9. Heavenly Gardens: Astrology and Magic in the Garden Culture of the Medieval Deccan Emma J. Flatt; About the Editors; About the Contributors; Index
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Table of contents
Foreword Monica Juneja;
Contents;
Glossary;
List of Plates;
Acknowledgements;
Introduction Daud Ali & Emma J. Flatt;
1. The Use of Garden Imagery in Early Indian Buddhism Akira Shimada;
2. Botanical Technology and Garden Culture in Somesvara's Manasollasa Daud Ali;
3. Nature, Dams, Wells and Gardens: The Route of Water in and around Bidar Klaus Rotzer & Pushkar Sohoni;
4. Paradise on Earth: The Deccan Sultanates Ronald Inden;
5. In Amin Khan's Garden: Charitable Gardens in Qutb Shahi Andhra Phillip B. Wagoner;
6. The Use of Imaginary Landscapes in Paintings from Bijapur Deborah Hutton;
7. Reading Gardens in Deccani Court Poetry: A Reappraisal of Nusrati's Gulshan-i Ishq Ali Akbar Husain;
8. The Nizamshahi Persianate Garden in Zuhuri's Saqinama Sunil Sharma;
9. Heavenly Gardens: Astrology and Magic in the Garden Culture of the Medieval Deccan Emma J. Flatt; About the Editors;
About the Contributors;
Index