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Its been a long time coming.

At dawn today, Sultan Narasaraja IV of Mysore fell to the gun of an unknown assassain. Apparently the whole country just fell apart, and now there's shooting in the streets of Sirangapatna between Muslims, Hindus, and God knows who else trying to become regent gor his boy. The Marathas are apparently "very disturbed", but naturally haven't gotten their act together to do anything.

IMO, this was pretty much inevitable. If you are a large state with an absolute monarchy and countless religious and ethnic groups, you really shouldn't embark on a mass of aggressive expansionist wars on an almost-bankrupt treasury. But what do you guys think?
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