TY - BOOK AU - Kaicker,Abhishek TI - The king and the people: sovereignty and popular politics in Mughal Delhi SN - 9780190070670 AV - DS461 U1 - 954/.56025 23 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Massacres KW - India KW - Delhi KW - History KW - DLC KW - Mogul Empire KW - Kings and rulers KW - Politics and government KW - Mughal Empire KW - Delhi (India) KW - 17th century KW - 18th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "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"-- UR - https://www.gbv.de/dms/mpib-toc/1672289122.pdf ER -