The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c20.66

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v4.c20.66

The economic ruin and destruction of order caused to the empire by the Marāthā ascendancy will be clear from these two contemporary accounts. Another eyewitness, Manucci, thus describes the frightful material waste caused by this quarter-century of futile warfare, and the complete desolation of the Deccan:

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