Hunting Landscapes: Human-Animal-Environment Nexus

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Chapter 4 Hunting Landscapes

Human-Animal-Environment Nexus

In: Taming Wilderness: The Mughal Hunt and Cultural Landscapes of the ShikÄrgÄh

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The shikÄrgÄh was conceptualised to accommodate multifarious functions. The spaces used for hunting, whether areas of wilderness or dedicated preserves, were reordered into arenas where the emperor could enact the hunt in a public display of power and bravery. The processes of landscape alterations entailed in the founding and development of the favoured hunting ground, the shikÄrgÄh-i muqqarar, are explored at length in this chapter. The degree and extent of environmental transformations required to shape these grounds to suit imperial expectations varied in accordance with function: some modifications were carried out in accordance with the hunting technique used, whilst others involved making the site more congenial for imperial use. The accommodation of courtly and bureaucratic functions, encampments, and war machinery entailed yet other types of landscape interventions. These procedures of altering the natural environment had far-reaching semiotics of political implications of power and control over man and nature.

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Taming Wilderness: The Mughal Hunt and Cultural Landscapes of the ShikÄrgÄh

Series:Â Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Volume: 193

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004749054

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 03 Dec 2025

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