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On the basis of the accounts of Europeans bring out the agrarian crisis of the 17th century CE India.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Economy and Society in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Seventeenth-century Mughal India presented a striking contradiction that struck every European traveller who recorded it: an empire of flourishing cities, glittering courts and expanding trade resting on a countryside that, read closely, showed unmistakable signs of strain.

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  • Peasant Poverty and Official Oppression
  • Revenue Pressure and the Jagirdari Squeeze
  • Abandonment of Cultivation
  • Famine and Climatic Failure
  • Corruption and the Cumulative Burden of Extraction
  • Zamindari Resistance and Rural Unrest
  • …and 3 more sections, with a conclusion

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