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Taj Heritage Corridor: Intersections Between History and Culture on the Yamuna Riverfront [Places / Projects] Peer Reviewed Title: Taj Heritage Corridor: Intersections between History and Culture on the Yamuna Riverfront [Places / Projects] Journal Issue: Places, 16(2) Author: Harkness, Terence Sinha, Amita Publication Date: 2004 Publication Info: Places Permalink: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/92j747wn Acknowledgements: This article was originally produced in Places Journal. To subscribe, visit www.places-journal.org. For reprint information, contact [email protected]. Keywords: places, placemaking, architecture, environment, landscape, urban design, public realm, planning, design, projects, Taj Heritage Corridor, intersections, history, culture, Yamuna Riverfront, Terence Harkness, Amita Sinha Copyright Information: All rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. Contact the author or original publisher for any necessary permissions. eScholarship is not the copyright owner for deposited works. Learn more at http://www.escholarship.org/help_copyright.html#reuse eScholarship provides open access, scholarly publishing services to the University of California and delivers a dynamic research platform to scholars worldwide. Taj Heritage Corridor: Intersections between History and Culture on the Yamuna Riverfront Terence Harkness and Amita Sinha Present-day Agra’s fame rests entirely upon the presence new shops and an amusement complex. However, this was of the Taj Mahal. However, the city is also home to a rich done without conducting an environmental assessment collection of lesser-known and seldom-visited Mughal or making the plan public, and the media raised a mas- monuments, many of which are situated on the Yamuna sive hue and cry, causing the project to be stalled and an riverfront within a relatively short distance of each other. inquiry ordered.1 This project eventually proved extremely How this riverfront landscape became the locus of such controversial, raising fears of excessive commercialization, an astounding cultural heritage is a story that is rarely blocked views of the Taj from Agra Fort, and fl ooding of presented to those who visit the area to see the mag- Mahtab Bagh. nifi cent Taj. Yet, given the high volume of international Though the extensive media coverage of that debacle and domestic tourism focused on the Taj and the Indian has succeeded in raising public awareness, it has not government’s interest in expanding this to include other included constructive debate on the possible course of nearby heritage sites, close examination of this landscape action that would make the riverfront accessible to both and the dynamics of its contemporary use is essential to citizens of Agra and tourists and create an appropriate future preservation efforts. greenbelt around the Taj. Historically, the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Yamuna riverfront in Agra was the private landscape The Historic Yamuna Riverfront of royalty and nobility, constituted by pleasure, palace, The Yamuna riverfront in Agra was fi rst described in and tomb gardens lining both banks. Vision and move- the memoirs of the founder of the Mughal dynasty on ment within the gardens were carefully controlled for an the Indian subcontinent, Babur, who had spent his life in orchestrated experience of the river. However, over the Central Asia and Afghanistan before conquering Northern next four hundred years, as the Mughal dynasty declined India in 1526 CE. Disliking the heat and dust of the plains and was replaced by British colonial rule and the modern of North India, he created garden enclaves for himself that Indian state, the historic riverfront gardens gave way to a were a refuge from the chaos and disorder of the surround- vernacular landscape of farm fi elds, orchards and nurseries, ing landscape. His nostalgia for Kabul and the many gar- with shrines and temples at the river’s edge. Today, of the dens he had built there to enjoy a prospect, take advantage forty-four gardens shown on an eighteenth-century map in of a running stream, and sloping terrain, was a powerful Sawai Jai Singh Museum in Jaipur, only fi ve remain. These enough reminder for him to search for sites in Hindustan are the modifi ed gardens of the Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, where he could retreat from a culture and populace he did Itmad-ud-daulah’s tomb, Chini Ka Rauza, and Ram Bagh. not understand or appreciate and a climate he found intol- In addition, Mahtab Bagh, the pleasure garden opposite erable.2 Residing in Agra, he chose to build gardens on the the Taj Mahal, was excavated in 1996 by the Smithsonian eastern bank of the Yamuna river, across from the Lodhi Institution and the Archaeological Survey of India, and citadel on the opposite bank. efforts are underway to restore it. Though there are no extant gardens or buildings of his Amid growing concern that environmental pollution time in Agra, Ram Bagh gives us a clue to what a pleasure from the modern town of Agra had the potential of harm- garden of Babur would have been like — terraced four- ing the world’s most beautiful mausoleum, in 1994 the square garden plots, rising in levels to an elevated water- Supreme Court of India ordered the shutdown of polluting front. Channels and tanks with island platforms brought industries there, regulated development within 500 meters water into the garden, while the river views and cooling of heritage structures (including a 100-m. no-build zone), breezes were enjoyed from the waterfront terrace. Vegeta- and asked the Ministry of Environment and Forests to tion and water were both tamed into rich formal patterns, plant a greenbelt around the Taj Mahal. In its Agra Heri- creating an ordered landscape that Babur felt home in. His tage Project report in the same year, the U.S. National favorite was Bagh-I-Zar-Afshan, named after a river in Park Service also outlined the concept of a Taj National Ferghana, Uzbekistan, where he had spent his childhood. Park on the eastern bank of the Yamuna river, across from More than one garden was built by Babur and his noble- the Taj, which would encompass the remains of Mahtab men on the east bank, causing it to be popularly known as Bagh and farmland occupied by three hamlets. “Kabul,” which pleased him, pining as he was for the deli- More recently, in 2003, the state government of Uttar cious fruits, salubrious climate, and mountainous terrain Pradesh began implementing its own plans for a Taj of Afghanistan. Babur was temporarily buried in one of the Heritage Corridor, which it envisaged as reclaiming land gardens before his remains were transferred to a garden from the river between the Taj Mahal and Agra Fort for site in Kabul nearly a decade after his death. 62 Harkness and Sinha / Taj Heritage Corridor 8WXkhÇi]WhZ[db[]WYomWim[bbYkbj_lWj[ZXo^_iZ[iY[d#Babur’s garden legacy was well cultivated by his descen- j[hhWY[el[hbeea_d]j^[Ðem_d]h_l[hWdZYWfjkh_d]_jiterrace overlooking the fl owing river and capturing its ZWdji"m^eYedj_dk[ZjeXk_bZedj^[OWckdWh_l[h\hedjdants, who continued to build on the Yamuna riverfront Yeeb_d]Xh[[p[i$:[[fm[bbim[h[Zk]\ehmWj[h"m^_Y^mWicooling breezes. Deep wells were dug for water, which was _d7]hW$>_iied>kcWokdfeii[ii[Zj^[_cW]_dWj_edjein Agra. 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