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Is it true that the court intrigues and weak revenue system led to the collapse of the Maratha empire? Comment.

  • UPSC 2016
  • The Eighteenth Century

The claim that court intrigues and a weak revenue system caused the collapse of the Maratha empire is substantially true as far as it goes, but it isolates two genuinely significant internal weaknesses while leaving out others — military and diplomatic — that were equally decisive; the honest comment is "true but incomplete."

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  • Court Intrigues: A Genuine and Recurring Weakness
  • Weak Revenue System: A Real but More Complicated Picture
  • What the Claim Leaves Out
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