Comments by "Mint" (@mint8648) on "MasterofRoflness"
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@rafaelglopezroman1110 the mughal empire before 1707 was centralized. absolutist prussia and france are small footnotes in history. for much of european history, the kingdoms were extremely decentralized, and nobility mattered a lot. spain, austria, england, the holy roman empire, nor the kingdom of italy were nowhere near as centralized as france, for instance. And absolutist france didn’t abolish feudalism, that was done by french revolutionaries. And the nation state you are talking about is hindustan, hindustan was the closest thing to an official name for the Mughal empire, it had been in use since the delhi sultanate. Outsiders like nader shah also called the mughal empire hindustan even though they did not rule all of india at the time. This is because hindustan sometimes only meant the gangetic plain, as opposed to all of india. So when mughal empire collapsed, the mughals still ruled most of the gangetic plain, they had a smaller and less diverse empire and their people in delhi were very loyal until the very end of the sepoy mutiny.
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@jupe2001 what you say is simply not true. the maratha empire was anything but centralized. tax collection was completely random depedning on the province, unlike the mughal empire, which had an efficient administration. otherwisee, how was it able to suck up 20% of india’s gdp for the court. the coinage was also established and standardized, unlike in the maratha empire. in general, living in the maratha empire would be more chaotic than in the mughal one; maratha empire depended somewhat on the plunder of enemy territories; notice how they repeatedly but sporadically raided bengal. the only territory directly ruled by the marathas was pune or maharashtra. the only territory indirectly ruled by the mughals was rajasthan. notice how most mughal territories were collectively called subahs or provinces, while marathas were a collection of vassals made up of maratha clans; nagpur, holkars, indores to name a few. there’s a reason the marathas were called the maratha confederacy, mughals were never called the mughal confederacy. and the fact that mughals used persian or turkic administrators proves that the mughal empire was centralized because it can use foreigners to directly rule its territories and didn’t need to depend on locals for administrators, like in a decentralized empire.
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