TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaicker,Abhishek
TI  - The king and the people: sovereignty and popular politics in Mughal Delhi 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780190070700
AV  - DS461 .K216 2020
U1  - 954.56025 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Massacres
KW  - India
KW  - Delhi
KW  - History
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Asian history
KW  - thema
KW  - Mogul Empire
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Delhi (India)
KW  - 17th century
KW  - 18th century
N1  - Also issued in print: 2020; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
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 text 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://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190070670.001.0001
ER  -