Topics
Factors for the decline of the MughalEmpire -The regional principalities: Nizam’sDeccan, Bengal, Awadh -Maratha ascendancy under thePeshwas -The Maratha fiscal and financial sys-tem -Emergence of Afghan Power, Battleof Panipat:1761 -State of politics, culture and econo-my on the eve of the British conquest
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