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Notes on video lecture:
The Apex and Erosion of the Mughal Empire
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on January 4, 2014 (go to class or lectures)
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mercantilist, Hindu, Europeans, alliances, Persian, India, zamindar, pacified, rule, sustain, third, Marathas, peacock, marriage, Punjab, 1689, defect, violence, Akbar, cotton, Mahal, toxic, ostentation, regime
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Mughal Empire (1526–1857)
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northern           , being then under mainly Muslim rulers, fell to the superior mobility and firepower of the Mughals
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resulting Mughal Empire did not stamp out the local societies it came to         , but rather balanced and                  them through new administrative practices
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it's one thing to create a regime as the Mughals did, it's another thing to                it, which they accomplished through three basic pillars
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1. used                  to combine households into nuptial alliances to create bonds of loyalty by forging kinship networks
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2. aristocratic nature of the empire drawing wealth from peasants
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used tax collectors called                 
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3. use of the military
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Mughal Empire was pluralistic
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predominantly Muslim
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mostly           
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Sikh (follower of Sikhism, from the              region)
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           (1542-1605)
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Mughal Emperor from 1556 until his death
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           and greatest ruler
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Mughal Empire reached acme under him
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established a centralized system of administration throughout his empire and adopted a policy of conciliating conquered rulers through marriage and diplomacy
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had several wives
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used marriage and kinship networks as a way of stitching together a             
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court was multi-demoninational
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architecture had Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist and                traits
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half century of order and wealth
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apex in 1605 when he died
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he rules by forced, a period of                  and warfare
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many military campaigns against hold-out provinces
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his regime used symbols
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1. the                throne
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exemplified the power and majesty of the emperor
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buckets of diamonds
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silk canopy
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the source of a great ceremonial display
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doing the same as Louis IV was doing in France: creating                       
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2. Taj           
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for his wife
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very strong Persian flavors
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was a symbolic mirage, by the time it as built there was much tension
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Deccan Wars (1680-1707)
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longest recorded military engagement in the history of India
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war ended in 1707 with a victory for the                 
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armies with several thousand elephants
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had to bring in more revenues to continue war
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was a cycle of war and debt, similar to Europe at that time
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local magnates start to              from the system
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this breakdown combines with the Europeans who are hovering around the coast of India aggravating the decentralization of India
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the weakening of the Mughal authority creates a vacuum
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                   make deals with aristocrats who are trying to free themselves from the burdens of Mughal authority
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by 18th century, a critical focus of this was the production of             
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a crucial staple of making new forms of textiles in Europe
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England used silver from Peru to pay for the cotton
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result was a vast new trading emporia, like Bombay and Madras
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the firm that began to dominate this business was The East India Company
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founded in         
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product of this                          age
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sometimes would confront the Mughals
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company actually didn't have the strength to defend itself against the Mughal Empire, in fact got spanked in its first military confrontation
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Europeans quickly learned that they had to challenge Mughal authority through                   
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slow but inexorable erosion of central power merging with global forces, warlords allying with European merchant capitalists, a            combination for the Mughal Empire, culminating in the defection one by one of local regional power brokers.
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