Abstract
The East India Company’s occupation of Delhi in 1803 created a new situation at the seat of the Mughal court, where the citizens had to treat with an alien government and its native instruments though formally they were still subjects of the Mughal emperor seated in the Red Fort. It is this situation, not so much any religious or communal issue, which explains the riot of 1807 directed against Harsukh Rai, a banker and major agent of the Company.
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