Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Medieval History

Assertion: The eighteenth-century regional states weakened Mughal authority but failed to establish a stable political order at the all-India level.

Consider the following statements in support of the assertion:

  1. Many regional states continued to acknowledge the Mughal emperor as an overarching authority.
  2. Their governments depended on collaboration with local zamindars, merchants, nobles and chieftains.
  3. They generally lacked sound financial, administrative and military organisation and remained engaged in warfare with neighbouring states.
  4. Every regional state rejected attempts at military or technological modernisation.

Which of the statements given above support the assertion?

  1. 1 only
  2. 1 and 2 only
  3. 2 and 4 only
  4. 1, 2 and 3
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