What caused the Mughals to fall? Was the power vacuum left by their ultimate decline the cause of British domination in India?
What caused the Mughals to fall...
Carson Johnson
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Landon Walker
Aurangzib alienated Rajputs and other Hindu subjects, then basically created a centralized authority among the Marathas by his ineffectual attempts to conquer the Deccan.
After Aurangzib and his immediate successors died, a period of court intrigues ensued in which a series of ineffectual emperors were raised by various factions. This led to decline of central authority and entrenchment of local governors as de facto local dynasts.
Finally, the Persian invasion by Nader Shah in 1738. It was such a devastating defeat that any prestige still left with the Mughals was gone. The state continued to exist only in name from then on.
Ryder Perry
As this guy already pointed out, Nader Shah was the real nail in the coffin: the entire army wiped out, delhi sacked for weeks, 500.000 civilians slaughtered in the capital alone, and the entirety of the Mughals' royal treasure taken as war spoils were what doomed the already fragile empire.
Brandon Ward
Don't forget when a bunch of Indian nationals murdered a few Persian soldiers, Nader carried out reprisals that killed thousands to make a point that the Mughals were decisively dead.
Christopher Sullivan
they depended on lizards too much.
Nicholas Williams
Yeah that was what the huge massacre in delhi was about.
Also to answer the last of OP's question, the power vacuum did help, but only insofar as the provinces that had already defected and declared indipendence are concerned. For the rest, the mughals did come face to face with the british directly, and it was them who brought the empire to its abrupt end in 1858.
Connor Flores
What sick weapon is the guy in the middle carrying?
Jaxon Green
Pata. So called "Gauntlet Sword."
Benjamin White
MOAR MUGHAL PICS
Bentley Sanders
I SAID MOAR
Isaac Russell
thicc
Lucas Parker
As pointed earlier, Aurangzeb was one of the main reasons. Plus many Rajput kings, the Marathas and the Sikhs had had enough of the Mughals.
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Juan Rivera
But the guy with the lizard and everyone else in the picture are fighting against the Mughals. Apparently some Marathas used the lizards to scale up fort walls. The lizards are supposed to be very good climbers and are also smart enough to be domesticated.
Jackson Torres
Is that guy sending an assassin lizard to scale the wall?
Wyatt Thomas
Nice
Adam Wood
What would the lizart do after he climbed the wall?
Tyler Stewart
Nah.
This was an episode in the Siege of Sinhagad when a bunch of Maratha soldiers tied a rope, which is tied to a thicker rope, on a monitor lizard. The Lizard scaled the wall and the rope was retrieved by a spy inside the wall. Then hundreds of Maratha soldiers climbed in but the rope broke and sent around 30 people to their deaths.
Christopher Richardson
Do you study Indian history?
Jordan Hall
Oh that makes sense. If the lizard climbed during a siege battle he would only get reeee-kt.
Hunter Gomez
No. I was puzzled myself and read it up on Wikipedia.
>en.wikipedia.org
Cunt who led the attack at Sinhagad. This was during the Maratha-Mughal wars.
Isaiah Scott
>implying it was "just" a lizard
Jayden Hernandez
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Jordan Morgan
Mughal style is da best tho.