Document Type : Research Article

Authors

• Darioush Rahmaniyan ¹
• Mehdi Mirkiaee ²

¹ Assistant professor, Department of History, Tehran University

² PhD Candidate in History, Payame Noor University,( Corresponding Author)

Abstract

Economic crises that intensified gradually in the Naserid era had consequences like starvation and high price of bread. In most cases, high prices and bread starvation in urban societies led to bread-related riots and mass protests against the government. The discredit on the economy and the government was the result of these riots and made the government concerned and fearful. The Qajar government whose relation with people was based on traditional pattern of Shah and subjects suppressed these disturbances. In this pattern, there was no opportunity for the mass protests against the government. Violent riots often made the government back out against the demands of people. Repeated bread-related riots affected the above said relation, though they didn’t lead to transformation of this traditional relation .The goal of this descriptive analytic research is to assess the effect of bread-related riots on the relations between people and the government in Naserid era so as to clarify some signs of these effects

Keywords

• Bread-related riots
• Starvation
• High price
• Naserid era