Taming Wilderness: The Mughal Hunt and Cultural Landscapes of the Shikārgāh

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74903-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 193, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 245 mm

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

The Mughal hunt may be understood as an interaction with the wilderness and conservation that comprehends empire building, the promotion of welfare and agricultural causes, scientific pursuits and engendering spiritual connections with nature. Countering traditional definitions of a hunting ground as an untamed, amorphous space, this book delves into the details of the Mughal shikargah conceived as an ecologically modified landscape with spatial and cultural relationships to gardens, agrarian lands and irrigation projects, and as an intermediate space that existed between cultivated lands and forests. Replete with colourful hunting anecdotes and richly illustrated, Taming Wilderness is an insightful study of this fascinating subject.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parpia, Shaha

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Shaha Parpia, Ph.D. (2019), Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture, The University of Adelaide, Australia, is Visiting Research Fellow at that university. She has published many papers on Mughal gardens, landscapes and the hunt.