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SAI INTERNATIONAL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL
                                                 SUBJECT HISTORY
                                                 CLASS VII (2020-21)
                        CH- 11 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POLITICAL FORMATIONS
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                                                   LESSON NOTES


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               INTRODUCTION                     By 1765, the British had caught real lumps of Indian
                                                  territory in eastern India.
                                                With Aurangzeb’s demise in 1707, numerous new
                                                  states developed in India.
               THE CRISIS OF THE                After achieving its pinnacle, Mughal realm began
               EMPIRE AND THE                     declining under Emperor Aurangzeb . this was a direct
               LATER MUGHALS                      result of Aurangzeb’s military and religious arrangement
                                                  which drained the budgetary assets of the Mughals.
                                                Under his successors, the proficiency of the majestic
                                                  organization separated. It ended up plainly hard to
                                                  check governors and mansabdars.
                                                Amidst this emergency, Nadir Shah’s intrusion in 1739
                                                  and attacks of Afghan ruler Ahmed Shah Abdali
                                                  between 1748-1761, debilitated the Mughal realm.
                                                The honorability was isolated into two noteworthy
                                                  gatherings Iranis and Turanis. For quite a while, the
                                                  later Mughal rulers were manikins in the hands of it is
                                                  possible that either of these two capable gatherings.
               EMERGENCE OF                     With the decay of Mughal expert, the governors united
               NEW STATES                         their power.
                                                Broadly, the states were isolated into three covering
                                                  gatherings: old Mughal areas like Awadh, Bengal and
                                                  Hyderabad states which appreciated thought freedom
                                                  like Watan Jagirs and a few Rajput territories, and the
                                                  last gathering included states like Marathas Sikhs and
                                                  the Jats.
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