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32\. B. S. Cohn, "Political Systems in Eighteenth-Century India: The Benares Region," *Journal of the American Oriental Society* 62 (1962): 312–20, esp. 313. Though Cohn refers to the eighteenth century, the system of relative weakness and management by conflict is equally relevant for the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—as it is for traditional empires in general. See also A. Wink, "Land and Sovereignty under the eighteenty-century Marāṭha Svarājya" (Doctoral thesis Leiden, 1984), chap. 1.