TY - BOOK AU - Ali, Daud AU - Flatt, Emma J ed. AU - Juneja, Monica ed. TI - Garden and landscape practices in pre-colonial India: histories from the Deccan SN - 9780415664936 U1 - 712.60954 PY - 2012/// CY - New Delhi PB - Routledge KW - Landscape gardening -- India -- Deccan -- History KW - Gardens -- India -- Deccan -- History. KW - Landscape gardening N1 - Table of contents -- Foreword / Monica Juneja -- Introduction / Daud Ali & Emma J. Flatt -- The Use of Garden Imagery in Early Indian Buddhism / Akira Shimada -- Botanical Technology and Garden Culture in Somesvara's Manasollasa / Daud Ali -- Nature, Dams, Wells and Gardens: The Route of Water in and around Bidar / Klaus Rotzer & Pushkar Sohoni -- Paradise on Earth: The Deccan Sultanates / Ronald Inden -- In Amin Khan's Garden: Charitable Gardens in Qutb Shahi Andhra / Phillip B. Wagoner -- The Use of Imaginary Landscapes in Paintings from Bijapur / Deborah Hutton -- Reading Gardens in Deccani Court Poetry: A Reappraisal of Nusrati's Gulshan-i Ishq Ali / Akbar Husain -- The Nizamshahi Persianate Garden in Zuhuri's Saqinama / Sunil Sharma -- Heavenly Gardens: Astrology and Magic in the Garden Culture of the Medieval Deccan / Emma J. Flatt ER -