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This document summarizes and critiques different approaches to understanding the nature of the pre-colonial Indian state, especially the Mughal polity. It discusses early theories put forward by writers like Francois Bernier that characterized the Mughal state as an "Oriental despotic" state, and traces how this view was adopted and developed by colonial writers. It then outlines revisionist approaches from Indian historians that challenged this characterization and argued the Mughal state was more similar

Author

Najaf Haider

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