The Broken Script : Delhi Under The East India Company and The Fall of The Mughal Dynasty

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 between 1803 and 1857—that will be read and discussed for decades. ‘Swapna Liddle has written the definitive history of “Company Raj” in Delhi…This wonderful account of the hybrid half-century that connected the late-Mughal world to colonial modernity is essential reading.’—MUKUL KESAVAN writer ‘Swapna Lidd...See More