a. What were Mughal emperors interested in?

Question

Read the following passage.

Under the Mughals, architecture became more complex. Mughal emperors were personally interested in literature, art and architecture. In his autobiography, Babur described his interest in planning and laying out formal gardens, placed within rectangular walled enclosures and divided into four quarters by artificial channels.

These gardens were called chahar baghs, four gardens, because of their symmetrical division into quarters. Beginning with Akbar, some of the most beautiful chahar baghs were constructed by Jahangir and Shah Jahan in Kashmir, Agra, and Delhi. 

Now answer the following questions. 

a. What were Mughal emperors interested in?

b. What was Babur interested in?

c. What are Chahar baghs’?

d. Why are chahar baghs called so?

e. Where did Mughal emperors construct Chahar baghs?

Answer 1

a. The Mughal emperors were interested in literature, art and architecture.

b. Babur was interested in planning and laying out formal gardens.

c. Formal gardens are placed within rectangular walled enclosures and divided into four quarters by artificial channels. These gardens were called Chahar bagh, four gardens.

d. These gardens were called Chahar bagh “four gardens, because of their symmetrical division into quarters.

e. Chahar bags were constructed in Kashmir, Agra, and Delhi by Akbar, Jahangir, and Kashmir.