IGNOU HISTORY NOTES : India History From Mid 18th to Mid 19th Century - Mysore and Hyderabad

IGNOU HISTORY Study Notes for IAS, UPSC Exams

History India From Mid 18th to Mid 19th Century

Mysore and Hyderabad

Structure

4.0 Objectives
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Mysore
4.3 War and Militarization
4.3.1 The Local Chiefs
4.3.2 The 18th Century Thrusts
4.4 Administration
4.5 Finance
4.5.1 Revenue from Land
4.5.2 Revenue from Trade
4.6 Hyderabad
4.6.1 Warfare and the Army
4.7 Land Revenue System
4.8 Patrons and Clients
4.8.1 Vakils
4.9 The Local Chiefs
4.10 Financial and Military Groups
4.11 Administrative Systems
4.12 Let Us Sum Up
4.13 Key Words
4.14 Answers to Check Your Progress Exercises

4.0 OBJECTIVES

The purpose of this Unit is to:
enatle you to see the process in which the political formation of Mysore and
Hyderabad evolved in the 18th century,
show how this pbcess was crucially different in the two regions, and
indicate cedtain reasons as to why the two processes were different.

4.1 INTRODUCTION

In. this Unit we will take you to the situation in South India after the decline of the
hegemony of the Mughals. Our focus will be on the emergence of the states of Mysore
and Hyderabad. We will see here that inspite.of the continuity of the earlier political
institutions certain basic changes occur in the nature of the polities formed. This
happened in different ways in Mysore and Hyderabad. While in Hyderabad the
Mughal political institutions were weakened and used for regional consolidation, in
Mysore on the other hand the Wodeyar dynasty was overthrown to form a stronger
overhauled administration. Both the processes led initially to the consolidation of
autonomy in the middle decades of the 18th century. That is the theme of this Unit.
In both cases by the last decade of the 18th century the autonomy was eroded slowly
(in Hyderabad) or violently terminated (in the case of Mysore) by the British.