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Officers of allranks took bribes. There was no drill in the army and eachsoldier trained as he wished with his weapons. Some of them were given highest positions. Hardy undertook the re-examination of the crisis and differed in their conclusions from those of Satish Chandra, M. But during the eighteenth century, the Rajputs became very weak due to the rise of the Sikhs, Jats and the Marathas. The majority of the Hindu population was continuously repressed by their Mughal emperors.
Most of them found pleasure in lavish lives without bothering the stability of the state. This led to increased indiscipline amongst the soldiers. . But Jahandar Shah and Ahmed Shah were not ashamed to be caught up in the tresses of their concubines who came between them and thier duties as Emperors: The Former fooled himself in public with his Lai Kunwar and the latter buried himself in his seraglio-which extended over four square miles-for weeks together without seeing the face of male. In the end, we may conclude that the decline of the Mughal Empire was not the consequence of administrative maladjustment which led to the Jagirdari crisis which in its turn led to the emergence of regional powers as successor states of the Mugjial-power in India. Tamil, Sanskrit, Urdu and other languages have contributed unimaginable wealth to the Indian literatures. They were stronger than before.
After the annexation of Bijapur and Golconda, Aurangzeb tried to crush the power of the Marathas. Finally, the foreign invasions completely shattered the economy. As a result, the majority population withdrew their court-operation. Ahmad Shah Abdali was defeated at Manpur by Ahmad Shah, the Mughal heir-apparent and Mir Mannu, the son of the deceased wazir Qamruddin. Mughal Nobles Abdullah Khan and Husain Ali Khan were became king makers known as Sayyid brothers. Others turned themselves into grasping tyrant who mercilessly fleeced the peasants of their Jagirs.
What are the causes of the Decline and Fall of the Mughal Empire ?
Aurangzeb's Deccan Policy was a complete failure and to a major extent caused the downfall of the Mughal empire. Hindus struggled too but the upper caste Hindus and Parsi communities as well as Hindu moneylenders could leverage their relationship with British to their advantage. Thus ended the Mughal dynasty. That lowered the tone of administration. This Empire was one of the biggest to have existed in the Indian subcontinent being compared even with the Mauryan Empire which existed 2000 years before the Mughals.
The soldiers andthe generals became pleasure loving and easygoing. They all drifted and dozed in admiration of the wisdom of their ancestors and shook their heads at the gorwing degeneration of the moderns. Let us view the causes that hastened the fall of the Mughal Empire after Aurangzeb. These later Mughal Emperor are weak and worthless. Temples were destroyed and non-Muslims were overly taxed. The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals Cambridge U. Drill was unknown and a soldier's training which he might undergo or as he liked, consisted in muscular exercise and a individual practice in the use of the weapons with which he was armed.
Oftentimes, the death of a king resulted into wars among their sons before a king would sit on the throne. During the 18th Century, the Empire saw fighting for its throne which resulted in war that claimed thousands of lives. According to evidence cited by the economic historians , , , and , per-capita agricultural output and standards of consumption in 17th-century were higher than in 17th-century Europe and early 20th-century. The burden of administration grew with the growth of the Empire. Aurangzeb made his religion an important part of his reign. Inhis will, Aurangazeb had directed his sons to divide the Empire peacefully among them. Irvine followed the empire-centric approach and attributed the decline to deterioration in the characters of rulers and their nobles.
Durga Das managed to remove him and his Mother Rajputana in spite of all the precautions taken by the Mughal Government. These descendants of the Mongals, led by Babur then steered a short empire which was based in the city of Samarkand. The presentation of Nazrs gifts involving sovereign status was ended by Lord Hastings in 1813. The Sayyid brothers followed a policy of religious tolerance. There are several causes for the decline of the Mughal empire. His hand was virtually forced by the growing Maratha power, the support extended to Shivaji by Madanna and Akhanna from Golconda and fear that Bijapur might fall under the domination of Shivaji and the Maratha-dominated Golconda.
Days were gone when the soldiers of Babar could suffer extreme hardship only the Indian soil. Many peasants formed roving bands of robbers and adventurers and thereby undermined law and order and efficiency of the Government. They could not save the Empire from rapid decline. In return Shahu promised them help in the Deccan with fifteen thousand soldiers. Each one, used nobles and members of the royal family to get the throne thereby dividing the nobles who fought for their self-interest only. In order to maintain harmony, they advocated a policy of associating Hindu chiefs and nobles with Muslim nobles. We can easily divide the contributions of the Mughals into three categories: historical works, translations ,poetry and novels.
Overseas, Europeans depended on Bengali products such as cotton textiles, silks and opium; Bengal accounted for 40% of Dutch imports from Asia, for example, including more than 50% of textiles and around 80% of silks. Satish Chandra further points out that as far as the Rajputs were concerned; the breach with Marwar was not due to any attempt on the part of Aurangzeb to undermine the Hindus by depriving them a recognised head. The later emperor Aurangazeb tried to make India a country of Muslim dominance. By the time of Aurangzeb's reign, there were a total of 455,698 villages in the Mughal Empire. Aurangzeb felt that if those states were annexed, the source of the strength of the Marathas will be stopped. Foreign Invasions:The invasions of Nadir Shah and Ahmad Shah Abdali proved fatal for the Mughal Empire. On the bright side, their huge and relatively stable empire allowed for safe travel, communication and trade between East and West for the first time since the fall of Rome.
