Question
How did the new states emerge?
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Answer
Emergence of New States:
- With the decline of the Mughal emperors, the governors of large provinces, subadars, and the great zamindars consolidated their authority in different parts of the subcontinent.
- Through the eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire gradually fragmented into a number^of independent, regional states.
- States that were old Mughal provinces like Awadh, Bengal and Hyderabad.
- The rulers of these states did not break their formal ties with the Mughal emperor.
- States that had enjoyed considerable independence under the Mughals as watan jagirs.
- They included several Rajput principalities.
- The last group included states under the control of Marathas, Sikhs, and others like the Jats.
- They were of differing sizes.
- They had seized their independence from the Mughals after a long drawn armed struggle.
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