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The Planetary King: Humayun Padshah, Inventor and Visionary on the Mughal Throne

 
Ebba Koch (Author)
Synopsis

Humayun, the son of Babur and the second Mughal ruler, reigned in Agra from 1530 to 1540 and then in Delhi from 1555 to 1556. Until now, his numerous achievements, including winning back the throne of Hindustan, have not been well recorded. The Planetary King follows Humayun’s travels and campaigns during the political and social disturbances of the early 16th century. It delves into Humayun’s extraordinary social and intellectual life; demystifies his magico-scientific world view, draws attention to his deep involvement with literature, poetry, painting, architecture, mathematics, astronomy, astrology, occultism and extraordinary inventions, and offers a new analysis of Humayun’s mausoleum as the posthumous sum of his visions and dreams.

The book accompanies the new site museum at Humayun’s tomb created by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture upon the culmination of two decades of conservation work on the World Heritage Site.

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About the author

Ebba Koch

Ebba Koch taught at the universities of Vienna, Oxford and Harvard; she specializes in the architecture, art and court culture of the Great Mughals of South Asia and their artistic connections to Central Asia, Iran and Europe. Her books include The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra (2006-2012) and Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology (2001). Ali Anooshahr is a Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He is a scholar of 'comparative Islamic empires' with a focus on historiography, history of memory, and cultural history of Persianate societies in the early modern period. He is the author of two books: The Ghazi Sultans and the Frontiers of Islam (2009) and Turkestan and the Rise of Eurasian Empires (2018), and articles published in Iranian Studies, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, Journal of Early Modern History and Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient.

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Bibliographic information

Title The Planetary King: Humayun Padshah, Inventor and Visionary on the Mughal Throne
Author Ebba Koch
Format Hardcover
Date published: 18.10.2022
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 9789385360985
length 384p., 273 Color Illustrations