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Do you subscribe to the view that the Anglo-French tussle in Carnatic demonstrated the internal decay of the provincial chieftains of South India?

  • UPSC 2019
  • British Expansion in India

The Carnatic Wars (1746–1763), fought nominally between the British and French East India Companies, were in practice waged largely through and because of contested successions among South Indian provincial rulers — making them as much a symptom of regional decay as a story of European rivalry.

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  • The Succession Crises That Enabled European Intervention
  • How European Rivalry Exploited This Weakness
  • Evidence of Deeper Provincial Decay
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