Abhishek Kaicker is Assistant Professor of
History, University of California, Berkeley.
"The King and the People is an exemplary exploration of the
relationship between the Mughal emperor and his subjects in the
empire's newly-built capital, Shahjahanbad. Spanning a period of a
hundred years, Kaicker tells an enthralling story of how 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. A major intervention in the field
of state sovereignty and popular politics." -- Shahid Amin, Delhi
University
"The King and the People offers an invaluable story of the
intersection of popular politics and Mughal sovereignty in the city
of Delhi between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Complex,
insightful, and drawing on little known Persian-language materials,
this book will inform and excite specialists of South Asian history
as well as early-modern world historians. Engagingly written and
filled with colorful characters and anecdotes, this book will also
delight lay readers." -- Munis D. Faruqui, Associate Professor of
South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California,
Berkeley
"In describing how people woke from a powerful fantasy about the
omnipotence and sacrality of Mughal rule to start asserting
themselves as a political force in the eighteenth century, Abhishek
Kaicker's extraordinary and beautifully crafted book conjures up
the often cacophonous voices of Mughal Delhi, both Hindu and
Muslim, as they worked out their complicated allegiances to
sovereign, city, family, and faith." -- Samira Sheikh, Associate
Professor of History and Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University
"A strikingly original and extraordinarily vivid account of the
making and unmaking of Mughal sovereignty through centuries of
power and poetry, regicide and revolution. Crucial to Kaicker's
narrative is the emerging voice of ordinary people in Mughal
history, one that both dooms and yet paradoxically preserves it for
posterity." -- Faisal Devji, Professor of Indian History,
University of Oxford
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