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Examine the status of Sanskrit in Mughal India

  • UPSC 2019
  • Culture during Mughal Empire

Sanskrit's position under the Mughals was genuinely paradoxical — politically demoted from its earlier centrality, yet intellectually engaged with by the imperial court in ways that generated a substantial, if uneven, body of new work.

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  • Sanskrit Pandits at the Mughal Court
  • Continued Vitality in Regional Courts
  • The Underlying Paradox and Its Causes
  • Conclusion

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