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1 Early Modern India: Eighteenth Century

What’s Inside

• Introduction

• Weak Successors of the Mughal Empire

• Successor States

• Rebel States

INTRODUCTION

Within the first decade of the Eighteenth century, the Indian subcontinent went through a series of changes. With the death of Aurangzeb in 1707, the Mughal Empire started to rapidly decline and disintegrate. We have previously discussed the reasons for the decline of the Mughal Empire, and an important reason why the decline was accelerated were the weak successors of Aurangzeb. We will set the context of Modern India by discussing the role of the weak successors here.

Whilst the weak ...