The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c7.48

c7.48

A comparison of the planning of the Tâj gardens (fig. 6) with these ancient Indian village plans will make it clear that when Babar began to lay out his fourfold field-plot at Agra he was not, as he evidently thought (and as Anglo-Indians of the present day believe), bringing fresh ideas to revive the parched-up plains of India which his ancestors had devastated; he was only unconsciously repeating the traditional Indo-Aryan garden plan, which probably Indian Buddhists had been the first to teach the Moguls.