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Mughal India and Manchu China had a fundamental weakness built into the basis of their political authority.
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“So both Mughal India and Manchu China had that kind of fatal defect,”
“as it were, coded into the ultimate basis for their authority.”Play from 1:27:39Report a misattribution
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