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In what ways were Aurangzeb’s Rajput and religious policies different from those of his predecessors? What were the consequences of the changes made by him?
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- Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century
Aurangzeb inherited from Akbar, Jahangir, and Shah Jahan a working template of accommodation with India's two most powerful non-Muslim constituencies — the Rajput nobility and the Hindu population at large — and, over his long reign, replaced large parts of it with a more assertive, exclusionary framework.
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- Religious Policy: The Break from Sulh-i-Kul
- Rajput Policy: From Paramountcy to Annexation
- Consequences of the Changes
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