The Passing of Empire
The Mughal Case
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3637547 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Athar Ali (0000-0003-4247-8048, Aligarh Muslim University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 385-396 |
| Publication date | 1975-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x00005825 |
| OpenAlex | W1982980921 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 4 |
There have been numerous attempts to explain the fall of the Mughal Empire; and I truly feel great hesitation in adding myself to the long list of its exponents. To historians like Irvine and Sarkar, the decline could be explained in terms of a personal deterioration in the quality of the kings and their nobles. The harem influence grew-and women, for some strange unscientific reason, are always supposed to be a bad influence. The kings and nobles became more luxury loving, though no-one has yet established that the Mughals during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries enjoyed any less luxurious mode of living than their eighteenth-century successors. Sarkar, in his monumental History of Aurangzib, also elaborated upon the traditionally recognized factor, namely, Hindu-Muslim differences: Aurangzib's religious policy is thought to have provoked a Hindu Reaction that undid the unity that had been so laboriously built up by his predecessors
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| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 2023 (48) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |