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Discuss the causes of the rise and growth of regional kingdoms with special reference to the Deccan in the 18th century.

  • UPSC 2011
  • The Eighteenth Century

The proliferation of regional kingdoms across eighteenth-century India was not an accident of chaos but the structured outcome of the collapse of Mughal centralised administration — and nowhere is this clearer than in the Deccan, where a successor state, a rebel movement, and an imperial withdrawal all played out within the same region.

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  • Structural Causes of Mughal Central Collapse
  • Classification of the Regional Kingdoms
  • The Deccan as the Special Case
  • Hyderabad: The Successor State
  • The Marathas: The Rebel/New State
  • Common Political Systems Adopted by the New States

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