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LIMITS OF THE IMPERIAL CRISIS IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; COMPARISON OF REMARKABLE CONVERGENCE IN VERNACULAR AND PERSIAN NARRATIVES
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Author(s):
SHREEKANT KUMAR CHANDAN
Vol - 5, Issue- 5 ,
Page(s) : 105 - 114
(2014 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH
Abstract
The eighteenth century has been seen in one strand of historiography as marking the age of crisis for the Persianate Mughal state due to incessant conflict with the emerging regional powers . It led to a picture of eightneenth century as a dark age however in the revisionist writings there has been a rethinking on the limits of this crisis. It’s interesting to note that Persian and bhasha sources converge remarkably in their description of popular events and the portrayal of historical actors involved. The impressive alignment of views between Brajbhasha and Persian sources opens a window into the limits of the crisis of Mughal state that early
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- This general epithet refers to a body of scholarship that presented a picture of vibrant political economies of regional polities and thus questioned considerably the earlier understanding of the ‘crisis’ produced by historians of Mughal empire. To name a few, Muzaffar Alam, The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India: Awadh and Punjab 1707-1748, Delhi, 1986. C.A. Bayly, Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: Norht Indian Society in the age of British expansion1770-1870, Cambridge,1983, indian edn,Delhi, 1992. Chetan singh, Region and empire: Punjab in the Seventeenth century, Delhi 1991.
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