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Question
What role did the following factor play in decline and downfall of the Mughal Empire:
Incompetence of the Later Mughals.
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Solution
The given factor played a significant role in the decline and downfall of the Mughal Empire, which is as explained as follows:
Incompetence of the Later Mughals:
The later Mughals were incompetent and did not have the skills that were needed to keep the system in working order. They let the affairs drift in their own way. R.C. Majumdar writes, “Province after province the Deccan, Oudh, and Bengal slipped out of imperial control.” The Marathas, the Jats, and Sikhs had also become very’ powerful by now. And in 1739, Nadir Shah, returned home laden with immense treasure including the famous Peacock Throne and the Kohinoor The invasion left the empire “bleeding and prostrate.” The last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah II was a symbolic head of the Great Uprising of 1857. He was imprisoned and banished to Rangoon, where he died in 1862.
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