The king and the people : sovereignty and popular politics in Mughal Delhi

Author/Creator:

Kaicker, Abhishek, author

Publication/Creation:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Resource Type:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

The king and the people : sovereignty and popular politics in Mughal Delhi / Abishek Kaicker

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Massacres--India--Delhi--History
Mogul Empire--Politics and government
Mogul Empire--Kings and rulers
Delhi (India)--Politics and government--17th century
Delhi (India)--Politics and government--18th century

Description/Summary

Summary:

"An unprecedented exploration of the relationship between the Mughal emperor and his subjects in the space of the Mughal empire's capital, The King and the People overturns an axiomatic assumption in the history of premodern South Asia: that the urban masses were merely passive objects of rule and remained unable to express collective political aspirations until the coming of colonialism. Set in the Mughal capital of Shahjahanabad (Delhi) from its founding to Nadir Shah's devastating invasion of 1739, this book instead shows how the trends and events in the second half of the seventeenth century inadvertently set the stage for the emergence of the people as actors in a regime which saw them only as the ruled"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xiii, 351 pages ; 25 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937203016402486

ISBN:

9780190070670
0190070676

OCLC Number:

1114274314

Barcode:

010003089941