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Write brief essay – Spanish ulcer ruined Napolean Bonaparte, the Deccan ulcer ruined Aurangzeb.

  • UPSC 1999
  • Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century

The phrase "ulcer" captures a slow, self-inflicted wound rather than a single fatal blow — an apt description of two prolonged, unwinnable campaigns that hollowed out two of the most formidable empires of their age.

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