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Aurangzeb's Paper Trail: The Empire's Bureaucrats
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the unseen machinery of Aurangzeb's empire: the clerks, accountants, and scribes who kept the Mughal state running. From the imperial chancery's Persian scrolls to the humble village records that tracked monsoon rains and harvests, we trace how paper — not just the sword — held the Deccan together. Along the way, we meet figures like the chief qazi Abdul Wahab and the munshi Muhammad Israfil, and we look at the Fatawa-e-Alamgiri's prescriptions for administrative conduct. We also consider the limits of this paper empire: how Maratha…
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