Kashmir's Mughal Landscape of Gardens: Creation and Decline of a Golden Age, 1586-1753

The verdant land of Kashmir came under Akbar’s Mughal rule in 1586, who called it ‘a garden of perpetual spring.’ Kashmir’s Mughal Landscape of Gardens traces how, since time immemorial, the region transformed into a vernacular landscape, and how the Mughals used this canvas to create an exceptional legacy of gardens and infrastructure. Jan Haenraets narrates the role of royals, nobility, governors, and builders, in chronological order, while identifying over fifty Mughal gardens. This lega...