Few cultures have as strong a connection among gardens, territory and identity as the Mughal Empire of South and Central Asia in the late fifteenth to the mid nineteenth century. It is interesting to reflect on how Mughal gardens continue to be a defining part of that heritage in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Source
From Mughal Gardens: History, Geography and Culture in Heritage of the Mughal World (Philip Jodidio, editor)
Wescoat, Jim. "Mughal Gardens: History, Geography and Culture". In
Heritage of the Mughal World, edited by Philip Jodidio, 97-111. Munich: Prestel, 2015.
Prestel and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture