Taming Wilderness: The Mughal Hunt and Cultural Landscapes of the Shikārgāh by Parpia, Shaha

Taming Wilderness: The Mughal Hunt and Cultural Landscapes of the Shikārgāh (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004749030)

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Taming Wilderness: The Mughal Hunt and Cultural Landscapes of the Shikārgāh by Parpia, Shaha

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

$129.00
Taming Wilderness: The Mughal Hunt and Cultural Landscapes of the Shikārgāh by Parpia, Shaha

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

$129.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 shikārgāh 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.

Author: Shaha Parpia
ISBN-10: 9004749039
ISBN-13: 9789004749030
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 01/29/2026
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.10w x 0.75d
By Shaha Parpia
By Shaha Parpia
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Shaha Parpia, Ph.D. (2019), is Visiting Research Fellow at The University of Adelaide, Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA), Australia. She is an architecture historian whose work focuses on Islamic architecture and gardens, Mughal landscapes, and the hunt.

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