Paper I · 3 History of India & AP · 3.2.12 Later Mughals and successor states

3.2.12.4 Decline 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.

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Key terms

  • decline
  • Sarkar
  • Irvine
  • Irfan Habib
  • agrarian crisis
  • jagirdari crisis
  • Satish Chandra
  • Athar Ali
  • Muzaffar Alam
  • regional states
  • eighteenth century

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