Mughal Gardens of Kashmir

The water channel at Nishat Bagh (Photo: Jan Haenraets, 2011).

Great post from Jill Sinclair on her a landscape lover's blog focusing on the Mughal gardens in Kashmir and the work currently being undertaken to preserve and conserve them.

The remains of the Oont Kadal in Dal Lake at Nishat Bagh (Photo: Jan Haenraets, 2010).

The post features an interview with Dr Jan Haenraets who is working on the conservation work, and who also wrote a fascinating article 'Rediscovering the Mughal Gardens of Kashmir'.

On the subject of Mughal Gardens...

The Times of India reports that the World Monuments Fund, a New-York based heritage protection body, has selected one of India's oldest Mughal gardens, the Aam Khas Nagh in Sirhind, Punjab to be put on its 2012 World Monuments Watch List.

The Daulat Khana-E-Khas monument within the garden

Four months after the announcement, the bad news is that the Punjab Government has as yet done nothing to seek the funds for the upkeep and restoration of the crumbling Mughal garden.