Preface
Introduction: Cowslips and Lotuses
PART I. GARDENERS ABROAD
Chapter 1. From Garden House to Bungalow, Nabobs to Heaven-Born
Chapter 2. Calcutta and the Gardens of Barrackpore
Chapter 3. Over the Hills and Far Away: The Hill Stations of
India
PART II. GARDENS OF EMPIRE
Chapter 4. Eastward in Eden: Botanical Imperialism and
Imperialists
Chapter 5. Gardens of Memory
Chapter 6. The Taj and the Raj: Restoring the Taj Mahal
Chapter 7. Imperial Delhi: City of Gardens
Chapter 8. Imperial New Delhi: The Garden City
Chapter 9. The Legacy
Conclusion: Garden Imperialism
Common Trees, Shrubs, and Plants in India South of the
Himalayas
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Flora's Empire brings new light to the complex history of British imperialism in India and its post-Independence legacy. Aided by beautiful period illustrations, it focuses on three centuries of official, domestic, and botanical gardens, as well as on memorial gardens and restorations of Muslim and Hindu sites.
Eugenia W. Herbert is Professor Emeritus of History at Mount Holyoke College and the author of several books, including Twilight on the Zambezi: Late Colonialism in Central Africa.
"An excellent history of British gardens in India. . . . [Herbert]
writes with gentle wit, elegance and love of her subject which are
rare in books on garden history."
*Financial Times*
"I found myself entertained on every page. Herbert's achievement is
that under the guise of a study of Britannia's role as gardener she
has written a thoroughly scholarly-indeed, groundbreaking, in every
sense of the word-history of the British entanglement in India. She
has flung her net far and wide, and drawn in a wealth of unfamiliar
sources, both exotic and homely, to build up a rich tapestry of the
Indian landscape. . . . full of insights and wonderfully readable,
Flora's Empire is as much a treat for the general reader as it is
for those who relish 'the glory of the garden.'"
*Charles Allen, editor of Plain Tales from the Raj*
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