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Informationen zum Autor Daud Ali is Associate Professor! Department of South Asian Studies! University of Pennsylvania. Emma J. Flatt is Assistant Professor! School of Humanities and Social Sciences! Nanyang Technological University! Singapore. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This presents innovative essays on landscape and garden culture in precolonial India. It describes gardens as real or imagined spaces and manipulated landscapes that are often invested with pronounced semiotic density. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
