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The details are ambiguous which is never liked by a cambridge examiner nature of the empire was basically vastness of empire there was no need to add wars of succession and high taxes to it as these are other reasons and it will be a mere identification of reasons. You could add that duue to the vastness of empire the rulers could not keep an eye and thus it resulted in lack of liaison as i read your question very carefuuly ill give you 5 although the paragraphing was good you must focus on explanation of the reason u identified giving other reasons to a reason is not an explanation instead it will keep you to a level 2can anyone mark this :
Q:what were the reasons for the decline of the mughal empire? [7]:
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there were a number of reasons for the decline of the mughal empire namely the nature of the empire, the cosequences of success and the arrival of the british.
Firstly, the nature of the empire was such that it was difficult to administer as it was very large. taxes were high and aurengzebs polices such as jizya brought many revolts. these wars cost alot of money and it was nearly emptied due to the wars of succession this weakend the empire and led to its decline
Secondly, due to success they became relaxed and complacent, the empire was not governed properly, there was corruption and huge sums of money was spent to make extravagant palaces. soon the military experties too declined and the mughals became ineffective in wars due to which the lost territory. this loss of power and the complacencies led to their decline
Finally, it was the british who pushed them into the final decline. overall they were superior in every department than the mughals. they had better weaponary and were technologically much more advanced and with the dividing mughal empire it was easy for them to take over the land as they were at the time the most powerfull nation in the world. these British strengths combined with the mughal weaknesses led them to their final decline.these are the reasons why the mughals declined.