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Programme:

History of Art - MPhil/PhD/MSc by Research

Start date:

September 2019

Mode of study:

Full time

Research title:

An Art of 'Aql: Calligraphers, Philosophers and the Art of Reasoning in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Mughal Court

Biography

I am an art historian specialising in the material and visual culture of Timurid South Asia, with broader interests in Central Asia and Iran. My research focuses on exchanges between artists and intellectuals, particularly calligraphers, and how their work shaped approaches to reasoning in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mughal court. A key focus of my dissertation is the oeuvre of the Mughal calligrapher Muhammad Husain Kashmiri (d. c. 1611).

Beyond my doctoral research, I am engaged with contemporary curatorial and artistic practice in South Asia. Prior to my PhD, I was a curatorial fellow at Khoj International Artists' Association in New Delhi, and I have contributed to curatorial projects and publications in both New Delhi and Berlin.