About the Book: 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 Liddle lovingly portrays the urbanity of Mughal Delhi and its people
struggling to cope with the shabbiness produced by colonial rule.