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Describe the Rajput policy of the Mughal emperors. Do you agree with the view that the reversal of Akbar’s Rajput policy by Aurangzeb was responsible for the disintegration of the Mughal empire?

  • UPSC 2000
  • Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century

The Rajput policy of the Mughals evolved from an ad hoc political expedient under Babur and Humayun into a settled institutional alliance under Akbar, sustained by Jahangir and Shah Jahan, before Aurangzeb reversed it in the last quarter of the seventeenth century.

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  • Antecedents: Babur to Humayun
  • Akbar: From Alliance to Partnership
  • Jahangir and Shah Jahan: Continuity with Concessions
  • Aurangzeb: The Reversal
  • Assessing the Disintegration Thesis

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