Continue discovering Babur with these open access resources.
The Moonlight Garden: New Discoveries at the Taj Mahal
Edited by Elizabeth Moynihan
“In the Footsteps of the Emperor Babur”
By Howard Kaplan, Asiatica 2009, pp. 46–51.
The Lotus Garden of Zahir Al-Din Muhammad Babur
By Elizabeth B. Moynihan, Muqarnas 5, no. 1 (1987), pp. 135–52. Used with permission from Brill.
The Gardens of the Mughal Empire Bibliographic Update
By Rachel Hirsch, Abdul Rehman, and James L. Wescoat, Jr.
Resources used by Elizabeth Moynihan in her research on Mughal gardens.
Asher, Catherine B. Architecture of Mughal India. The New Cambridge History of India. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Beach, Milo Cleveland. The Imperial Image: Paintings for the Mughal Court. Revised and expanded edition. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and Mapin Publishing, 2012.
———. Mughal and Rajput Painting. The New Cambridge History of India. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Beveridge, Annette Susannah, trans. The Babur-nama in English (Memoirs of Babur), volume 1. London: Luzac & Co., 1922.
———, trans. The Babur-nama in English (Memoirs of Babur), volume 2. London: Luzac & Co., 1922.
———, trans. The history of Humāyūn (Humāyūn-nāma) by Gulbadan. London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1902.
Dale, Stephen F. The Garden of Eight Paradises: Bābur and the Culture of Empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan and India (1483–1530). Leiden: Brill, 2004.
Dughlat, Haydar Mirza. Tarikh-i-Rashidi (History of Rashid): A History of the Moghuls of Central Asia, 1541–46.
Forster, E.M. Abinger Harvest. New York: HBJ Book, 1936.
Godden, Rumer. Gulbadan: Portrait of a Rose Princess at the Mughal Court. (New York: Viking Press, 1981).
Moynihan, Elizabeth B., ed. The Moonlight Garden: New Discoveries at the Taj Mahal. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution and University of Washington Press, 2000. [link to digitized version]
———. Paradise as a Garden: In Persia and Mughal India. New York: George Braziller, 1979.
Richards, John F. The Mughal Empire. The New Cambridge History of India. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Ruggles, D. Fairchild. Islamic Gardens and Landscapes. Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Smart, Ellen. “Paintings from the Baburnama: A Study of Sixteenth-Century Mughal Historical Manuscript Illustrations.” PhD diss., School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1977.
Thackston, Wheeler M., trans. The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor. New York: Oxford University Press in association with the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1996.
———. The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India. New York: Oxford University Press in association with the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1999.
Tod, James. Annals and Antiquities of Rajistan. New Delhi: K.M.N. Publishers, 1971.
Villiers-Stuart, Constance. Gardens of the Great Mughals. London: A. and C. Black, 1913.
Westcoat, James L., and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn. Mughal Gardens: Sources, Places, Representations, and Prospects. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1996.
Wilber, Donald N. Annotated Bibliography of Afghanistan. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files Press, 1968.
———. Persian Gardens and Pavilions. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1962.