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Aurangzeb’s Deccan policy was a major factor in Mughal decline. Discuss.

  • UPSC 2022
  • The Eighteenth Century

Aurangzeb's near three-decade-long involvement in the Deccan (1681–1707) is widely treated as the single most consequential policy decision of the late Mughal period, converting a still-formidable empire into one hollowed out from within by the time of his death.

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  • The Content of Aurangzeb's Deccan Policy
  • Resource Drain and the Jagirdari Crisis
  • Administrative Overextension and Neglect of the North
  • Political and Religious Alienation
  • Locating the Deccan Policy Within the Wider Decline Debate

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