The Yadavindra Gardens at Pinjore, in the Shivalik foothills near Kalka, are a seventeenth-century Mughal terraced garden attributed to Fidai Khan, Aurangzeb's foster brother, and later held and restored by the Patiala state.
It is a charbagh on seven descending terraces with water running through all of them, in a landscape where the fall of the ground does the work that pumps do elsewhere.
The Shalimar Gardens at Lahore, built 1641, are the great example of the type and are in Pakistan. Pinjore is the one that stayed on this side, and it went to Haryana in 1966.
The Punjab hill route from Kalka to Shimla passes it, and it was a stage on that road.
Punjab's Mughal garden tradition, like most of its Mughal architecture, is almost entirely on the other side of the line, and this is the exception that makes the loss legible.
The terraces carry a set of pavilions: the Sheesh Mahal with its mirror work, the Hawa Mahal behind it and the Rang Mahal below, each sited so that the water passes through or under it.
It works because of the fall of the ground. Water enters at the top terrace and runs the length of the garden by gravity through channels and chutes, with no pumping anywhere in it.
It is one of the few substantial Mughal gardens left in the eastern Punjab country, and the reorganisation of 1966 placed it in Haryana.