Format:
xiii, 351 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
,
25 cm
ISBN:
9780190070670
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Acknowledgments
,
Chronology
,
A Note on Transliteration and Sources
,
Maps
,
Seeing the People
,
Anatomy of a Massacre: Nadir Shah in Delhi, 1739
,
Sovereignty, City and the People
,
Poetry and the Public in Aurangzeb's Delhi
,
Aurangzeb's Law and Popular Politics
,
Daulat's Fight: Regicide and the Popular Intervention, 1719
,
Islam as a Language of Popular Politics
,
The Shoemakers' Riot and the Limits of Popular Politics
,
Epilogue
,
Bibliography
,
Index
,
In English with Latin, Persian, and Urdu transliteration
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9780190070694
Language:
English
Keywords:
Delhi
;
Mogulreich
;
Politische Beteiligung
;
Geschichte 1648-1739
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