IGNOU HISTORY NOTES : India History From 8th to Mid 15th Century - Rise of Regional Powers

IGNOU HISTORY Study Notes for IAS, UPSC Exams

History India From 8th to Mid 15th Century

Rise of Regional Powers

Structure

36.0 Objectives
36.1 Introduction
36.2 Historical Perspective of the Emergence of Regional Polities
36.3 Successor Stabs
36.3.1 Awadh
36.3.2 Bengal
36.3.3 Hyderabad
36.4 The New States
36.4.1 The ~arethas
36.4.2 Punjab
36.4.3 The +t State
36.5 Independent Kingdoms
36.5.2 The Rajputs
36.5.3 Kerala
36.6 Nature of Regional Polities
36.7 Let Us Sum Up
36.8 Answers to Check Your Progress Exercises

36.0 OBJECTIVES

In this Unit you will be introduced to :

the developments preceding the formation of regional polities;
the different types of states that emerged following the collapse of the Mughal imperial authority and
the functiening and failure of the regional powers.

36.1 INTRODUCTION

We have explained in the previous Unit that why and ho$"the Mughal Empire
collapsed during the first half of the 18th century. Subsequent to the decline of, the
Mughal Empire, a significant development of this period was the emergence of
independent regional states. However, then has been a tendency in the writinp of
contemporary Persian and the early British historians to overlook this developoment
by overprojecting the decline of the Mughal Empire and by glorifying the
establishment of the British ~le. Contemporary researches on the 18th century have
drawn our attention to the need of studying the 18th century India on its own, not
from the perspective of the decline of imperial authority or the beginning of
colonial rule. Keeping this in view, an attempt has bein made in this Unit to
familiarize you with the various facets of the emergence of the regional polities
during the first half of the 18th century.