
Combining immaculate scholarship with extraordinary storytelling, Swapna Liddle has produced an outstanding book of narrative history--on a great city in transition, and on early modern India--that will be read and discussed for decades.

DeScriPtion At the start of the nineteenth century, there was a Mughal emperor on the throne in Delhi, but the Mughal empire, in decline for almost a century, was practically gone. A new power had emerged-the British East India Company, which captured...