Mosque, Memory and State: A Case Study of Jama Masjid (India) and the Colonial State c. 1857
This paper discusses how Masjid-e-Jahan Numa(Masjid with world gotrax handlebar vision, popularly known as Jama Masjid) constructed by Emperor Shahjahan, the fifth Mughal ruler in India, shaped the popular memory of people in Delhi and the ruling State alike until the late nineteenth century, two centuries after its construction.This mosque which w