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How was the Afghan nobility responsible for the decline of the Afghan empires? Discuss.

  • UPSC 2012
  • The Eighteenth Century

The collapse of Afghan political authority in North India — under the Lodi dynasty and later the Sur Empire — cannot be explained by external conquest alone; the Afghan nobility's own factionalism, tribal loyalties, and disloyalty to the throne were decisive internal drivers of both empires' failure.

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  • Factionalism and Internal Rivalries
  • Ambition, Disloyalty, and the Invitation to Babur
  • Failure to Institutionalise Centralised Administration
  • Tribal and Regional Loyalty over Loyalty to the State
  • Consequences

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