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Aurangzeb's Deccan Quagmire and the Maratha Guerrilla War
While previous episodes have explored Aurangzeb’s administrative reforms, religious policies, and personal letters, this episode examines the military disaster that ultimately unraveled his empire: the Deccan Wars. We follow the Emperor’s thirty-year campaign in the south, focusing on the brutal capture of Sambhaji and the subsequent shift in Maratha tactics under Chhatrapati Sambhaji’s successors. Lucas details how the Mughal reliance on heavy cavalry and siege warfare failed against the light, mobile guerrilla strategies of Dhanaji Jadhav and Ramachandra Pant Amatya. Luna probes the…
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