Aiming to invite discourse about one of the longest occupied and least studied landscapes on earth, Beardsley intends the book to contain black and white voices from both inside and outside the
subcontinent, which offer a range of perspectives on its historical landscapes, some complementary, some competing with each other. Citing that little attention has been paid in landscape
studies to precolonial and later indigenously designed landscapes of the subcontinent or how those landscapes were understood and misunderstood in the colonial era, or how they are being
recuperated today for nation-building identity formation and cultural affirmation, Beardsley’s book and the symposium it records contribute to a small but growing effort to address this
oversight. Fourteen chapters are divided into three parts: monument and environment; pathway and grove; rethinking landscape. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
