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“What was interesting about Muzzafar Alam’s book on the crisis of Empire in north India of the Mughals was that the period of decline—of what we normally see as decline—is also a period of deeper penetration of imperial statecraft. So, actually, the form of statecraft that the Empire represents becomes more deeply entrenched in provincial society. So, you could say that the fragmentation is, in a way, the price of success. It’s not failure.” Read more...
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