THE BROKEN SCRIPT: Delhi under the East India Company and the fall of the Mughal Dynasty 1803-1857

Title
Dedication
Contents
Map of Delhi
Mughal Emperors and Contenders to the Mughal Throne
British Officials in Charge of the Administration of Delhi
Introduction
PART ONE: Akbar II: The Beleaguered Emperor
	1. A New Power
	2. A New Emperor
	3. The ‘House of Timur’
	4. Revisiting a Relationship
	5. ‘The Abode of War’?
	6. The British Power and the New Elite
	7. Peace…and Strife
	8. The Question of Succession
	9. Exile
	10. Charles Metcalfe as Resident
	11. Keeping Up Appearances
	12. The British Enclave
	13. Cultural Crossover
PART TWO: Winds of Change
	14. Increasing Economic Control
	15. Removing the Mask
	16. Marginalized
	17. Domestic Strife, and Rammohan Roy
	18. Re-ordering Spaces
	19. Religious Identities
	20. Not Business as Usual
	21. Uncertain Relationships
	22. The Fraser Assassination Case
PART THREE: Bahadur Shah Zafar: The People’s Emperor
	23. The New Emperor and His Court
	24. Challenges from Company and Family
	25. George Thompson: Advocate of the Mughal Cause
	26. Trouble in the Family
	27. Two Royal Deaths
	28. The People’s Emperor
	29. Ties Old and New
	30. Unity and Discord in the City
	31. Assessing Foreign Rule
PART FOUR: A World of Poetry and Education
	32. Languages of Culture
	33. The World of Poetry
	34. Education
	35. The Government College
	36. The Government College: Early Years
	37. Upheaval and Reorganization
	38. A New Paradigm for Education
	39. The Translation Project, and its Limitations
	40. Master Ram Chander and the Advancement of Learning
	41. Print and Journalism
	42. The Changing World of Poetry
	43. New Worlds in Language
	44. Questioning the Heritage of the Literary Tradition
	45. New Preoccupations
PART FIVE: 1857 and Its Aftermath
	46. 11 May 1857
	47. Suspicion and Terror
	48. The New Regime
	49. War
	50. A City Divided
	51. A Cause to Fight For
	52. A World Turned Upside Down
	53. Nerves and Resources Stretched Thin
	54. A City Destroyed
	55. Leader of a ‘Muslim Conspiracy’
	56. The City Transformed
	57. The Lament
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Endnotes
Select Bibliography
Copyright
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