Mughal Architecture: An Outline of Its History and Development (1526-1858).(Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology: Collected Essays)(Book Review)

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Mughal Architecture: An Outline of Its History and Development (1526-1858). By EBBA KOCH. New Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2002. Pp. 160. $45.

Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology: Collected Essays. By EBBA KOCH. New Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2001. Pp. xxi + 317. $72.

Mughal Architecture is a clear, precise, and short account, based on thorough scholarship, of Mughal architecture from its inception in the sixteenth to the nineteenth century A.D. True, some periods are given greater emphasis than others, but this reflects to a large extent the state of studies. ...

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