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Compare the Peshwas’ bureaucratic management with that of the Imperial Mughal administration.

  • UPSC 2015
  • The Eighteenth Century

Comparing Peshwa administration with the Imperial Mughal system reveals two very different solutions to the same underlying problem of governing a large, ethnically and regionally diverse territory — one built around a formalised, salaried bureaucratic hierarchy, the other around a looser, increasingly hereditary confederate structure.

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