The Mughals brought the Persian charbagh, a quadripartite garden divided by axial watercourses and walkways into four quarters, and developed it at architectural and urban scale. Used for tombs, palaces and pleasure grounds, it relied on channels, tanks and chadar water-chutes fed by careful hydraulic engineering. At Humayun's Tomb and the Taj Mahal the garden frames the monument, while Shahjahanabad wove gardens and water into the imperial city.
The charbagh introduced a formal, water-structured landscape order that shaped Mughal funerary and urban design.
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