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Akbar’s Rajput policy was shaped by considerations of factional politics in the Mughal court. Discuss.

  • UPSC 2025
  • Akbar

Akbar's cultivation of the Rajputs is usually explained as a strategy for winning over India's indigenous ruling elite, but the timing and scale of that cultivation tracked just as closely with the rise and fall of rival factions inside the Mughal nobility itself.

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  • The Turani Problem: Uzbek Rebellions and the First Turn Toward Rajputs
  • The Third Phase: Rajputs as Counterweight to Doubted Turani Loyalty
  • Irani Nobles and the Wider Ethnic Balance
  • Limits of the Factional Reading
  • Conclusion

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