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Abstract: - The traditional professional historical scholarship held a very narrow view of politics. To it politics was considered to be comprised of activities done by the government and its institutions. Since government and its institutions were traditionally completely monopolized by the elites, the politics was considered to be the exclusive domain of such sections of society. The historians kept the focus of their scholarship solely on the elites. The common masses were completely ignored in their studies. The masses were considered to be apolitical and thus, were thought to have no history at all. However in the recent times such views were strongly challenged. The masses were not passive receptacles, claimed the new scholarship. But they were shown taking active part in the politics of the time through a variety of means. Even the traditional conception of politics itself was challenged. The new scholarship does not restrict politics to government and its institutions. But it claims that politics is in everything and everywhere. As a result, the increasing number of historians began to explore the politics of the common people. The study of popular politics has now become the subject of professional historical scholarship. In this paper the researcher will try to understand the popular politics by focusing on the new historiographical trends that arose from recent scholarship.