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Question
Answer the following question briefly.
To what extent was the following factor responsible for the eventual collapse of the Mughal empire?
Economic bankruptcy
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Solution
Economic bankruptcy:
A major cause of the disintegration of the Mughal empire was its economic bankruptcy. The enormous sums of money spent by Shah Jahan on magnificent monuments like the Taj Mahal had drained the royal treasury. Aurangzeb’s Deccan campaign was a financial disaster that ruined the empire and made its collapse inevitable.
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