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Aurangzeb's Water Crisis: How the Mughal Empire Dried Up
In the dry Deccan plateau, Aurangzeb's endless wars triggered a water catastrophe that helped collapse the Mughal Empire. This episode follows the emperor's ambitious but doomed water management projects: the failed Nizam Shah canal, the forced abandonment of the old stepwells of Aurangabad, and the fatal silting of the Paithan reservoir. We explore how Aurangzeb's obsession with conquering the Maratha heartland led him to strip the Deccan of its traditional water systems — wells, tanks, and baolis — leaving his armies thirsty and his treasury drained. Drawing on the…
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