Mughal garden

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The term Mughal gardens is used to describe the gardens made in India during the period of the Mughal Empire.

The founder of this empire, Babur, details his enthusiasm for gardens in his memoirs, the Babur-nama. Babur had occupied Samarkand as a young man and seen the Persian-influenced gardens made by Timur. He described his favoured type of garden as a charbagh, though this word developed a new meaning in India because, as Babur explains, India lacked the fast-flowing streams required for the Central Asian charbagh. The Agra garden, now known as the Ram Bagh, is thought to have been made by Babur and to have been changed at a later date. India and Pakistan have a number of Mughal gardens which differ from their Central Asian predecessors in their highly disciplined geometry.