Mughal-Meiji

Well it wouldn't really be A Meiji style one, since it would have had to happen in the 18th Century. It kind of fell apart from the inside, until it was replaced by the British at the turn of the 19th Century. The Mughals were relatively advanced, so I don't know how much modernization could happen around 1701.
 

Germaniac

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Why has every one on this board proposed a Meiji. In fact if this happened it would be called a Mughal-restoration not Meiji-Restoration
 
Not so much a Meiji-style crash modernization as keeping up with Europe, but I think that if Dara Shikoh had beaten Aurengzeb and the other brothers in the War of Succession and preserved the religious tolerance that had been a Mughal characteristic since Akbar instead of bleeding the army and treasury dry on war and rebellion in the Deccan, they could certainly have kept abreast of European ideas and had quite a few of their own.

Wow, long sentence, sorry. Incidentally, the four brothers were about as religiously different as possible, Dara was a syncretist in an almost Sikh-like way, Aurengzeb was very much the orthodox Sunni, Shuja was a Shia and Murad was irreligious. Likely made for some awkward family gatherings, even before Aurengzeb led Murad and Shuja against Dara, their father's favorite and almost certain heir.
 
I wish people would stop it with the -meiji suffix.
Japan was nothing special really in its modernisation, most other countries did try to do the same. Alll that makes Japan stand out is it was succesful.


Here- as said it'd need to be 18th century which is problematic as the industrial revolution was jsut vaguely starting there...You'd need a very smart mughal indeed who latches onto the agricultural revolution and banking reforms going on in Britain
 
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