Ebba Koch

Ebba Koch  (Ausserordentliche Professorin, University of Vienna)  received her  Dr. phil. in History of Art and Classical Archaeology from the University of Vienna, Austria,  in 1986.  She taught as a  visiting professor  at  Oxford (2008) and  Harvard (2008/09) and  was a senior researcher at  the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2009-2014) and  Tagore National Fellow for Cultural Research under the  Indian Ministry of Culture  (2015-2017).  Dr. Koch  has conducted major surveys of Mughal architecture  in the Indian Subcontinent. Her  other research interests are Mughal painting and applied art,  the political, social  and symbolic meaning of art, and the artistic connections between the Mughals  and  their neighbours and Europe. She has published widely on these topics: her  major publications are  Mughal Architecture (1991/2014), Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology (2001), The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra (2006/2012), and as co-author with  M.C.  Beach,  King of the World: The Padshahnama: An Imperial  Mughal Manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle (1997).  She edited together with Ali Anooshahr the collective volume The Mughal Empire from Jahangir to Shah Jahan (2019).  Her new book is The Planetary King: Humayun Padshah: Inventor and Visionary on the Mughal Throne (2022)