Ebba Koch’s Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology: Collected Essays contains eleven essays published between 1982 and 1997 on the art and architecture produced under the Mughals (1526–1858), the longest-surviving and richest of all the dynasties to rule the Indian subcontinent. The texts range in length from a short, eleven-page reflection on the impact of the Jesuit Missions on the depictions of the Mughal emperors to a seventy-page, near book-length study of the decoration on the throne made for the emperor Shah Jahan in the Red Fort at Delhi. To meld the essays into a coherent whole, the illustrations from the original publications have been renumbered consecutively and sometimes replaced, and useful features such as a glossary, bibliography, and index have been added. The author, who teaches art history at the University of Vienna, has also included a brief introduction outlining her purpose and methodology: to make available, particularly to Indian scholars (there is an Indian edition), her articles, which are scattered over a range of journals, festschriften, conference proceedings, exhibition catalogues, and collected volumes, and to address the ideological and social importance of Mughal art. Koch is particularly concerned with the importance of visual evidence in assessing and evaluating literary...