UPSC · Prelims and Mains
Modern Indian History
← European arrival and Company expansionIndia on the eve of conquest: later Mughals, successor states and Panipat
- Causes of Mughal decline after 1707: succession, jagirdari crisis, Deccan wars, nobility factions, agrarian distress, regional revolts, invasions
- Later mughals and sayyid brothers
- Shah Alam II: Buxar 1764, Allahabad 1765, Maratha protection, the empire reduced to Delhi and British control 1803
- Successor states
- Independent and rebel states
- Rajput jat and southern states
- Sikh misls and ranjit singh
- Abdali and panipat 1761
- Eighteenth-century society: caste councils, social divisions among Muslims, women and slavery
