Which Mughal ruler was called the ‘Prince of Gardens’ / ‘Crown of Gardeners’ due to his extreme interest in gardens?
Babur was known as the ‘Prince of Gardens’ due to his profound interest in planning and designing gardens based on the Persian Charbagh style. He meticulously planned numerous gardens wherever he conquered, documenting their layout and flora in his autobiography, the ‘Baburnama’. The most famous of these remains the Bagh-e Babur in Kabul. The correct answer is (B) Babur.
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Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, earned the epithet ‘Prince of Gardens’ owing to his architectural passion for creating symmetrical gardens. His memoir, the ‘Baburnama’, details his fascination with Central Asian and Persian garden design, which he adapted into the Charbagh style—a geometrically precise layout divided into four parts. This garden-design legacy was continued by his successors and became a distinctive feature of Mughal architecture, including the gardens of the Taj Mahal.