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The king and the people : sovereignty and popular politics in Mughal Delhi
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020] |
| Schriftenreihe: | Oxford scholarship online
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| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource |
| Gedruckte Ausgabe: | Erscheint auch als:
Kaicker, Abhishek : The king and the people. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2020. - xiii, 351 Seiten
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| ISBN: | 9780190070700 0190070706 9780190070694 0190070692 9780190070670 0190070676 |
| Anmerkungen: | Also issued in print: 2020. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 18, 2020) |
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| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780190070670.001.0001 |
| wird zitiert von: | 9 Titel im Zitationsindex COCI |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |