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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

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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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