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Q. Was the weak military the main reason why the mughal empire declined ?
Yes i agree to the fact that military factors were the most important reason for mughals decline as they had outdated weapons and poor war tactics whereas the british had modern weapons coming on a regular basis from england thus they easily took control over them. Moreover they were also great mind manipulists on account of which they led all of indians to go against one other thus they broke off their control. However there were several other reasons as well .
For instance there was no law of succession during the time due to which princes had to often fight for the throne after the death of the emperor leading to various lobbies supporting various princes that led to different frontiers and army thus there was no association between them on which british were easily able to take control of them .
Furthermore, aurangzebs successors were also luxury loving, corrupt and ineffective due to which they lost control over the empire . They spent all of the states treasury on personel comforts that led to financial inefficiencies thereby the empire faced problems in effective administration. Moreover they also did not had any kind of administrating abilities due to which all of the larger states decreases to smaller states on account of which the british were able to conteract them.
Besides this the internal and external ivasions by nadir shah durrani from 1939 onwards and ahmed shah abdali from 1948 onwards also exploited the treasures wealth and the famous peacock throne from the empire to restore their powers.​