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Identify the broad contours of the Mughal foreign policy and their impact on the Mughal empire.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century

Mughal foreign policy, from Babur to Aurangzeb, was never a single fixed doctrine but a continuously adjusted blend of military expansion, marriage diplomacy, frontier management, and commercial calculation.

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  • Territorial Expansion and Annexation of Regional Kingdoms
  • Diplomacy, Marital Alliance, and the Politics of Status
  • The North-Western Frontier: Kabul-Kandahar as the Strategic Spine
  • The Deccan Policy and Its Overextension
  • Maritime Policy and Engagement with European Powers
  • Cultural and Religious Diplomacy
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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