Screening Paper I · 1 History & Culture · APPSC Group 1
1.3.12 Later Mughals and successor states notes
4 notes, in reading order.
- 1.3.12.1Later Mughals, the Sayyid brothers and the invasions of Nadir Shah and Abdali
After Aurangzeb the throne passed quickly between weak emperors, noble factions such as the Sayyid brothers held real power, and invasions by Nadir Shah and Abdali left Delhi helpless.
Advanced · 5 min · Full course - 1.3.12.2Successor states: Hyderabad, Awadh and Bengal
As Delhi weakened, powerful governors in Hyderabad, Awadh and Bengal became hereditary rulers who kept a nominal loyalty to the emperor but acted as independent states.
Advanced · 5 min · Full course - 1.3.12.3Rajputs, Jats and Rohillas in the eighteenth century
In the eighteenth century Rajput, Jat and Rohilla chiefs carved out states from the declining Mughal empire, each with its own capital, army and revenue system.
Advanced · 4 min · Full course - 1.3.12.4Decline of the Mughal empire: the historians' debate
Historians explain the fall of the Mughal empire through Aurangzeb's policies, an agrarian and jagirdari crisis, factional nobility, external invasions and the rise of regional powers, and they disagree about the weight of each.
Advanced · 5 min · Full course
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