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The King and The People The King and The People Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi ABHISHEK KAICKER 1 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2020 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Kaicker, Abhishek author. Title: The king and the people : sovereignty and popular politics in Mughal Delhi / Abhishek Kaicker. Description: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019035558 (print) | LCCN 2019035559 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190070670 (hardback) | ISBN 9780190070694 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Mogul Empire—Politics and government. | Mogul Empire—Kings and rulers. | Delhi (India)—Politics and government—17th century. | Delhi (India)—Politics and government—18th century. | Massacres—India—Delhi—History. Classification: LCC DS461 .K216 2020 (print) | LCC DS461 (ebook) | DDC 954/.56025—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019035558 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019035559 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Integrated Books International, United States of America مهکولم نید یلع سانلا For my family, and in memory of my father. Contents Acknowledgments xi Chronology xv A Note on Transliteration and Sources xvii Maps xix Introduction: Seeing the People 1 1. Anatomy of a Massacre: Nadir Shah in Delhi, 1739 18 2. Sovereignty, City, and the People 54 3. Poetry and the Public in Aurangzeb’s Delhi 99 4. Aurangzeb’s Law and Popular Politics 147 5. Daulat’s Flight: Regicide and the Popular Intervention, 1719 176 6. Islam as a Language of Popular Politics 227 7. The Shoemakers’ Riot and the Limits of Popular Politics 256 Epilogue 291 Bibliography 309 Index 337
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