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Kaicker, Abhishek

The king and the people sovereignty and popular politics in Mughal Delhi Abishek Kaicker - xiii, 351 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten

Includes bibliographical references and index

"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"--

ISBN: 9780190070670 hardback

LCCN: 2019035558

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Massacres--History--India--Delhi
Massacres--History--India--Delhi

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Mogul Empire--Kings and rulers
Mogul Empire--Politics and government
Mughal Empire--Politics and government
Mughal Empire--Kings and rulers
Delhi (India)--Politics and government--17th century
Delhi (India)--Politics and government--18th century

LC Class. No.: DS461

Dewey Class. No.: 954/.56025