Shahjahanabad, the capital city of the Mughal Empire, occupied a prominent spot in the Delhi triangle.
An edition of Shahjahanabad
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Shahjahanabad
the sovereign city in Mughal India, 1639-1739
by Stephen P. Blake
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Publisher description: From 1400 to 1750, Asian capital cities were often ruled in such a way that they became symbols of the power and influence their emperors extended over their states at large. These 'sovereign cities' became the empire in miniature. Shahjahanabad is the first study of a pre-modern Indian city (Old Delhi) as a sovereign city. Stephen Blake explores the way in which the emperors' and nobles' palaces and mansions dominated the landscape; how cultural life revolved around that of the emperors and their families; and how the households of the great men also dominated the urban economy and controlled a large percentage of state revenue. This study thus illuminates how Asian capitals were not the great amorphous agglomerations described by Marx and Weber. Instead they were urban communities with their own distinctive style and character, dependent on a particular kind of state organization.
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Shahjahanabad: The Sovereign City in Mughal India, 1639-1739
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Shahjahanabad: The Sovereign City in Mughal India, 1639-1739
2010, Cambridge University Press
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Shahjahanabad: The Sovereign City in Mughal India 16391739 (Cambridge South Asian Studies)
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Shahjahanabad: the sovereign city in Mughal India, 1639-1739
1993, Cambridge University Press, Foundation Books
in English
- 1st Indian ed.
8185618305 9788185618302
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Shahjahanabad: the sovereign city in Mughal India, 1639-1739
1991, Cambridge University Press
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