Taming Wilderness: The Mughal Hunt and Cultural Landscapes of the Shikārgāh (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 the Near and Middle East)

Taming Wilderness explores, through Mughal hunting practices, the creation of the shikārgāh, an ecologically modified hunting landscape which functioned as an intermediate space between forests and cultivated lands, with political and cultural dimensions and a close relationship to garden and agrarian domains.