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I Mughal Agra, a riverfront garden city What a city! A perfumed garden, newly in
flower - Its buildings havegroum tall like cypress trees. Abu Talib Kalim, poem in
praise of Akbarabad (Agra), from his Diuian, 1630s1 The-^faj^Mahjl^im^lex ...
I Mughal Agra, a riverfront garden city What a city! A perfumed garden, newly in
flower - Its buildings havegroum tall like cypress trees. Abu Talib Kalim, poem in
praise of Akbarabad (Agra), from his Diuian, 1630s1 The-^faj^Mahjl^im^lex ...
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The riverfront garden city FROM CREATION UNDER BABUR TO GLORY
UNDER SHAH JAHAN When Babur took Agra in May 1526 he initiated a
remodelling of its urban landscape. For him, as a Timurid, gardens were the
preferred type of ...
The riverfront garden city FROM CREATION UNDER BABUR TO GLORY
UNDER SHAH JAHAN When Babur took Agra in May 1526 he initiated a
remodelling of its urban landscape. For him, as a Timurid, gardens were the
preferred type of ...
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26 Carlleyle describes it as having a pavilion overlooking the river and, in the
middle of the landward garden, a large octagonal platform beneath which was a
tahkliana.'27 On the 1868-69 maP °f Agra [28] the garden appears under the
name ...
26 Carlleyle describes it as having a pavilion overlooking the river and, in the
middle of the landward garden, a large octagonal platform beneath which was a
tahkliana.'27 On the 1868-69 maP °f Agra [28] the garden appears under the
name ...
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Contents
Preface | 6 |
Mughal Agra a riverfront garden city | 23 |
The riverfront garden city | 29 |
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| Title | The complete Taj Mahal and the riverfront gardens of Agra |
| Author | Ebba Koch |
| Illustrated by | Richard André Barraud |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Bookwise (India) Pvt. Ltd., 2006 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 24 May 2010 |
| Length | 288 pages |
| Subjects | › Agra (India) Architecture / General Gardens, Mogul Taj Mahal (Agra, India) |
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