A fascinating documentary - & just a taste of everything the gardens of India & Pakistan have. Wonderful to see the renovation programmes & the construction of new parks & gardens. A real step forward in an increasingly barren & overly crowded world. There is so much material & history it would fill further documentaries....... Many thanks for giving me a glimpse of a wonderful world of horticultural & philosophical treasures & tradition.
Thank you for this beautiful series of documentaries on different garden traditions of the Islamic world. It's worth pointing out that all these different garden traditions ultimately trace their origins to the gardens of Persia. I think it's appropriate to call these "Islamic gardens," since it was mostly thanks to Islam that the Persian garden spread throughout the world. There were many, many aspects of Persian culture and civilization that Islam adopted and made its own, which also includs the Persian garden.
My favourite part was seeing the women play like children. As a woman, a mother and a wife, I wish I had access to a garden where only women were allowed so we could act like children again 🥰
It's too bad we didn't see the gardens of village India. Particularly in the lush Kerala. Also a program on the gardens of India without marigolds? Or the temple gardens of Tamil Nadu? Really too focused on the Mughal side, beutiful as it is.
11:40, the perfume making scene is very interesting to me. In 1982, I tried to make perfume at home with our roses. I collected some, and tried to cook them on our kitchen stove to extract the perfume. Instead of smelling like roses, they smelled like reeking horrid cabage. I assumed I had done something wrong until I saw your video, where these folks are clearly using boiling water to collect the rose perfume. So, I did not do anything wrong. I am not certain what happened, but those roses still belong to my family, even if we are not in residence at that house on Ferncliff road. That property belongs to my family. By the way, and Indian female physician purchased that house from us in 1982. She was very rude to us.
Very well made. Keep aside the rss muslims and isis hindus, Mughal heritages are also Indian heritage. It is the heritage of hindu, muslims and all indians. British destroyed many charming residences around red fort and the heritages around tajmahal. They stole golds and jewels from these buildings. But, still india has its potential. They must take care and carry the the traditions of their magnificent past.
Oh man, you should visit Sean Connary's Christian Garden, Winston Churchil's Semi Christian Garden, Prince Charles Islamic Garden of London, Buckingham Palace's Islamic Garden, Windsor Castle's Islamic Garden. Can't wait...
Nothing of the horrific introduction of this video can being seen in this beautiful, unique and amazing gardens and architecture. But of course they are trying to attach the beauty to the colonialism, to the ones they commit horrific crimes and till the present days are still taking our treasures.
If the British didn’t come to India, Indians would still be holding wife-burning ceremonies and fighting amongst themselves as smaller regional powers. War would be more commonplace on the subcontinent and all the horrible things that come with it. I know the British have horrible teeth and they sound funny, but I think they brought more than they took…
Sorry to say that you are so biased against Muslims that though all gardens are constructed n made by Muslims MUGHALS but you couldn't mention the Shalamar Garden in lahore..rather you said that it is a city of chaos...🤨U couldn't even mention the Lawrence garden here...Very prejudiced against Pakistan
Lawrence Garden was created by the British. But Lahore itself was known as city of gardens. Not only Shalimar gardens but Shahi qilla, tombs of Noorjahan and Jahangir have wonderful architecture, and gardens.
What does "oriental magnificence" mean? Oriental is a very outdated and loaded term but what does it even mean in the context of India? Another word that is completely inappropriate is "exotic" because the designs found in India are not exotic to Indians only to Westerners.
Your videos are always produced outstandingly. However, you need to do more research. Your commentary is not factual. In India, the President's role is ceremonial. The Prime Minister is the executive. Yes, the President gets to live in the presidential house - Rashtrapati Bhavan, which has a beautiful garden. The Indian garden psyche mimics nature. Nature is chaotic and less organized. English gardens also mimic nature. Different civilizations adopted their own approach to gardening. One has to appreciate every gardening style.
I don't like the narrative. Because all I hear is that, only the Islamic rulers brought the garden culture, geometry and aesthetics in India and before that, none of this existed properly. Whereas it's quite the opposite. They came to India and destroyed everything beautiful. They destroyed our temples which used to be engineering marvels! Whatever they couldn't destroy, they built their own monuments on top of ours. They burnt our universities like Nalanda and Takshila. Those were international universities. Nalanda alone was burning for more than 3 months! They looted us, raped and killed millions of people. With that looted money, they lived a lavish lifestyle. We haven't forgotten any of those atrocities. Still we preserve the Mughal culture, monuments and the history.
History is not black and white like that. You should study more and find out the truth yourself, and not repeat what has been fed to you. Especially this hateful mentality against Muslims. (Bhakt Spotted.)
There were no gardens in India before the Muslims, simply because India is already naturally lush and green enough. Gardens are a Persian invention, created for the purpose of being a cool and green refuge in the Iranian desert climate. Since the Muslims that conquered India were Persianized Turks and Afghans, they brought a whole lot of the Persian culture with them to India, which also included the garden.
Buddhist Nalanda University was destroyed 3 times 1. During MIHIRIKULA'S reign, Brahmins attacked Nalanda University.. First attack was done by order of Brahmin named Pushyamitra who took advantage of declining Mauryan dynasty and its weak rulers. It should be noted they attacked the university and the monks. The attack was against the Buddhists. 2. The second destruction came during the 7th century by the Goudas. 3. The third attack on the Nalanda University by the Turkish leader Bakhtiyar Khilji during the year 1193 Hope that clarified your doubts. Knowledge is bliss 🙏
Why do they call it islamic? These garden designs are from the ancient persians, who wrote about their gardens and wine. Islam has culturally appropriated, erasing the history. In addition the Indians have an immortal history of the best gardens ever that is more wild and free than the persian style
Of course you are focusing on the Islamic part. Nothing about the post colonial development of public gardens, digital era development of tech parks that merge technology with nature or pre-colonial temple and palace gardens of India. Just the Islamic part. Severly underresearched and Ill informed. Just stick to the Islamic countries you are so fond of and leave India out of your Islamic propaganda
Thee real gardens of India are in public spaces, tech parks that merge business-technology-nature and temple where spirituality guides the soul. What they showed in this video are pathetic attempts by foreigners to erase the diverse Indian culture
@@MahiMahi-yu5jo I don't believe this to be the case. The Mughal brought over Persian sensibilities and the concept of 'Paradise' gardens and they did create some surpassingly beautiful ( formal ) gardens at great, vast expenses. Most of these haven't survived in their original form, of course. The hunting parks and pleasure gardens created by pre-Mughal kingdoms and by the Mughal haven't survived, either. Under the Raj, the independent, client states and the Anglo-Indian state created some amazing Anglo-Indian architecture, blending the sensibilities of the British Empire with those of the blended, native cultures. Anglo-Indian gardens were as cultured and beautiful as the architecture, to be sure. Most of this is being lost rapidly through demolition, neglect and the winnowing away of estates and public areas in the press of population boom and lack of resources. I did a deep dive after I watched this video and others. There are still some beautiful spots remaining in India and some private gardens that do manage to incorporate the natural scenery as well as their own vistas and plantings. The problem is that India is vastly overpopulated, heavily polluted, littered and corrupt. Although peoples and cultures have their own, developed styles and sense of beauty, there are also certain universal standards of what is beautiful. Modernity and the nervous and temporary globalisation that is sweeping the world today is, of course, very ugly and dehumanising. This is reflected in all it expressions of art, architecture, music and literary works as well. India is also succumbing to this, unfortunately. India has birthed five ( 4 ) civilisations to date and is one of the ancient cultures of the world that endures into modern times, but what is going on in places like India and China today is simply not sustainable and is mostly very ugly as these things inevitable are.
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So much beauty from the past...I hope it can be maintained and in some instances revived...
A fascinating documentary - & just a taste of everything the gardens of India & Pakistan have. Wonderful to see the renovation programmes & the construction of new parks & gardens. A real step forward in an increasingly barren & overly crowded world. There is so much material & history it would fill further documentaries.......
Many thanks for giving me a glimpse of a wonderful world of horticultural & philosophical treasures & tradition.
Synergy. Together with everything is always more beautiful. CONVIVENCIA!
Thank you for the beautiful tour. I hope all of those gardens flourish.
Thank you for this beautiful series of documentaries on different garden traditions of the Islamic world.
It's worth pointing out that all these different garden traditions ultimately trace their origins to the gardens of Persia. I think it's appropriate to call these "Islamic gardens," since it was mostly thanks to Islam that the Persian garden spread throughout the world. There were many, many aspects of Persian culture and civilization that Islam adopted and made its own, which also includs the Persian garden.
Devi TripuraSundari 's Auspiciousness 🦚💜🦚💜🦚🦚💜⚜⚜⚜🌷🌷🌷🌷
We need more community, public spaces for women
They're called restrooms.
I agree🎉❤🎉
@mindfulmaxAnd your "comment" is disrespectful and has no place here.
@@valerieneal2747 Cry to your mother in the restroom.
Everywhere in the world!
This type of gardens comes from the Mughul charbagh, which is a garden plan that evokes the gardens of paradise.
Mughal garden is very beautiful
My favourite part was seeing the women play like children. As a woman, a mother and a wife, I wish I had access to a garden where only women were allowed so we could act like children again 🥰
Wasn't that beautiful? It brought happy tears to my eyes to be witness to being and feeling free🎉
Video minute 30:51, Shalimar, they used to advertise this as a perfume on our television on Bainbridge Island when I was a child.
Very interesting and lovely.
It's too bad we didn't see the gardens of village India. Particularly in the lush Kerala. Also a program on the gardens of India without marigolds? Or the temple gardens of Tamil Nadu? Really too focused on the Mughal side, beutiful as it is.
Very true, very biased depiction. Why didn't they show the Brindavan garden...etc. I wonder who has funded this series!!!
@@s4segnoray Stop whinging.
Amazing architecture and culture left behind by Muslim rulers. Once changed, even the town, road and life became devastated. Poor India.
😂 Now that’s an introduction, “ India, densely populated, poor and chaotic.”
Love the idea of a womens only garden in Delhi
many will find it anti-women.
Try the Garden of the Douenas in the palace of old Seville.
11:40, the perfume making scene is very interesting to me. In 1982, I tried to make perfume at home with our roses. I collected some, and tried to cook them on our kitchen stove to extract the perfume. Instead of smelling like roses, they smelled like reeking horrid cabage. I assumed I had done something wrong until I saw your video, where these folks are clearly using boiling water to collect the rose perfume. So, I did not do anything wrong. I am not certain what happened, but those roses still belong to my family, even if we are not in residence at that house on Ferncliff road. That property belongs to my family. By the way, and Indian female physician purchased that house from us in 1982. She was very rude to us.
The smell in India is overwhelming.
@RoscoPColtrane17 Jerry Wagner, hello
Which year was this documentary created?
Clearly they see and show 20 year old india😂😂😂
I think 2015 coz at 39:20 he says the shop was established in 1816 and it is 199 years old so 1816 + 199 = 2015
@@jaykay6249 good spot, the cars in the traffic shot seemed much older than 2015 though, maybe those are stock footage and are even older.
There is nothing Indian about the Taj Mahal.
It was designed by two Iranian architects, in an Iranian (Persian) style.
Very well made. Keep aside the rss muslims and isis hindus, Mughal heritages are also Indian heritage. It is the heritage of hindu, muslims and all indians.
British destroyed many charming residences around red fort and the heritages around tajmahal. They stole golds and jewels from these buildings.
But, still india has its potential. They must take care and carry the the traditions of their magnificent past.
No
There is no " RSS Muslims". As for ISIS, that was a creation of US imperialism.
I was expecting to see the gardens in Kashmir as well :(
I agree. Shows their lack of research and their focus on stereotyping
Ofcourse Shalimar, Mughal, Pancsheel etc
Kashmir is india too
Oh man, you should visit Sean Connary's Christian Garden, Winston Churchil's Semi Christian Garden, Prince Charles Islamic Garden of London, Buckingham Palace's Islamic Garden, Windsor Castle's Islamic Garden. Can't wait...
Nothing of the horrific introduction of this video can being seen in this beautiful, unique and amazing gardens and architecture. But of course they are trying to attach the beauty to the colonialism, to the ones they commit horrific crimes and till the present days are still taking our treasures.
If the British didn’t come to India, Indians would still be holding wife-burning ceremonies and fighting amongst themselves as smaller regional powers. War would be more commonplace on the subcontinent and all the horrible things that come with it. I know the British have horrible teeth and they sound funny, but I think they brought more than they took…
the tip of Southern India has an equatorial climate not subtropical
This is indo persian garden
Exactly. It's just Persian.
Sorry to say that you are so biased against Muslims that though all gardens are constructed n made by Muslims MUGHALS but you couldn't mention the Shalamar Garden in lahore..rather you said that it is a city of chaos...🤨U couldn't even mention the Lawrence garden here...Very prejudiced against Pakistan
Lawrence Garden was created by the British. But Lahore itself was known as city of gardens. Not only Shalimar gardens but Shahi qilla, tombs of Noorjahan and Jahangir have wonderful architecture, and gardens.
Muslim is a religion Indian and Pakistani Muslims aren’t Mughals.
What does "oriental magnificence" mean? Oriental is a very outdated and loaded term but what does it even mean in the context of India? Another word that is completely inappropriate is "exotic" because the designs found in India are not exotic to Indians only to Westerners.
How biasness do you want ?
Yesss !
It appears the gardens aren't on par with the architecture.
That's Persian architecture. Two Iranians designed the Taj Mahal.
Ustad Lahori and Ali Shirazi.
Your videos are always produced outstandingly. However, you need to do more research. Your commentary is not factual. In India, the President's role is ceremonial. The Prime Minister is the executive. Yes, the President gets to live in the presidential house - Rashtrapati Bhavan, which has a beautiful garden. The Indian garden psyche mimics nature. Nature is chaotic and less organized. English gardens also mimic nature. Different civilizations adopted their own approach to gardening. One has to appreciate every gardening style.
I don't like the narrative. Because all I hear is that, only the Islamic rulers brought the garden culture, geometry and aesthetics in India and before that, none of this existed properly. Whereas it's quite the opposite. They came to India and destroyed everything beautiful. They destroyed our temples which used to be engineering marvels! Whatever they couldn't destroy, they built their own monuments on top of ours. They burnt our universities like Nalanda and Takshila. Those were international universities. Nalanda alone was burning for more than 3 months! They looted us, raped and killed millions of people. With that looted money, they lived a lavish lifestyle. We haven't forgotten any of those atrocities. Still we preserve the Mughal culture, monuments and the history.
History is not black and white like that. You should study more and find out the truth yourself, and not repeat what has been fed to you. Especially this hateful mentality against Muslims. (Bhakt Spotted.)
You're brainwashed and lack critical thinking
There were no gardens in India before the Muslims, simply because India is already naturally lush and green enough. Gardens are a Persian invention, created for the purpose of being a cool and green refuge in the Iranian desert climate. Since the Muslims that conquered India were Persianized Turks and Afghans, they brought a whole lot of the Persian culture with them to India, which also included the garden.
Ok MR PAJEETA Ph.D (Entire History) from WhatsApp University.
Buddhist Nalanda University was destroyed 3 times
1. During MIHIRIKULA'S reign, Brahmins attacked Nalanda University.. First attack was done by order of Brahmin named Pushyamitra who took advantage of declining Mauryan dynasty and its weak rulers. It should be noted they attacked the university and the monks. The attack was against the Buddhists.
2. The second destruction came during the 7th century by the Goudas.
3. The third attack on the Nalanda University by the Turkish leader Bakhtiyar Khilji during the year 1193
Hope that clarified your doubts. Knowledge is bliss 🙏
Why do they call it islamic? These garden designs are from the ancient persians, who wrote about their gardens and wine. Islam has culturally appropriated, erasing the history. In addition the Indians have an immortal history of the best gardens ever that is more wild and free than the persian style
This video should be titled Mughal garden not Indian garden
Of course you are focusing on the Islamic part. Nothing about the post colonial development of public gardens, digital era development of tech parks that merge technology with nature or pre-colonial temple and palace gardens of India. Just the Islamic part. Severly underresearched and Ill informed. Just stick to the Islamic countries you are so fond of and leave India out of your Islamic propaganda
India; Poor and Chaotic ? Okay sure. Typical claims from a self proclaimed first world
Let's be real.
Without Parsis/Iranis, your country would be like Africa.
Those Iranians/Parsis are just brilliant! We need to steal them.
india? poverty? old news dear
The gardens of India...are not really that beautiful.
lol this video havent shown other beautiful indian gardens ..i myself visited india and gardens are much beautiful then this..
Thee real gardens of India are in public spaces, tech parks that merge business-technology-nature and temple where spirituality guides the soul. What they showed in this video are pathetic attempts by foreigners to erase the diverse Indian culture
@@MahiMahi-yu5jo I don't believe this to be the case. The Mughal brought over Persian sensibilities and the concept of 'Paradise' gardens and they did create some surpassingly beautiful ( formal ) gardens at great, vast expenses. Most of these haven't survived in their original form, of course.
The hunting parks and pleasure gardens created by pre-Mughal kingdoms and by the Mughal haven't survived, either. Under the Raj, the independent, client states and the Anglo-Indian state created some amazing Anglo-Indian architecture, blending the sensibilities of the British Empire with those of the blended, native cultures.
Anglo-Indian gardens were as cultured and beautiful as the architecture, to be sure. Most of this is being lost rapidly through demolition, neglect and the winnowing away of estates and public areas in the press of population boom and lack of resources.
I did a deep dive after I watched this video and others. There are still some beautiful spots remaining in India and some private gardens that do manage to incorporate the natural scenery as well as their own vistas and plantings. The problem is that India is vastly overpopulated, heavily polluted, littered and corrupt.
Although peoples and cultures have their own, developed styles and sense of beauty, there are also certain universal standards of what is beautiful.
Modernity and the nervous and temporary globalisation that is sweeping the world today is, of course, very ugly and dehumanising. This is reflected in all it expressions of art, architecture, music and literary works as well. India is also succumbing to this, unfortunately.
India has birthed five ( 4 ) civilisations to date and is one of the ancient cultures of the world that endures into modern times, but what is going on in places like India and China today is simply not sustainable and is mostly very ugly as these things inevitable are.
Mughals? U mean Turkic people!
What islamic garden?? Garden exist in india since mauryan time.
Nothing islamic. Garden exist long befor islam. In india traditional exist since mauryan time.
It's Iranian.
Read our Ramayana Epic mantion call vatica that is garden. Have you any written evidence 🧾🧾 looks your culture looking like tribal culture
What a shameful introduction !