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Examine the causes and consequences of peasant uprisings during the reign of Aurangzeb.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century

The reign of Aurangzeb (1658–1707) witnessed a cluster of armed peasant revolts — Jat, Satnami, Sikh and others — that were rooted overwhelmingly in agrarian distress, even where they later acquired religious or regional colouring.

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  • Structural Causes: The Jagirdari–Peasant Squeeze
  • Climatic Shocks, Famine and Agricultural Decline
  • Administrative Corruption and Peasant Flight
  • The Jat Rebellion (1669 and after)
  • The Satnami Revolt (1672)
  • The Sikh Movement and Agrarian Peasant Society
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion

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