The Mughal rulers and the Manchu rulers of Qing China were outsiders, not indigenous to the populations they governed, which created underlying resentment.

“to maintain that hegemony which he established by almost taking over all of India and the Mughals was at root had the same problem that the Manchu did when they conquered the Ming in the 17th century and they built the Qing dynasty China the greatest physical extent it ever had but they were always outsiders they were not indigenous to the population and the background there was always that vague resentment”

“that were being ruled here by foreigners and that was okay while they were going from success to success but when the momentum halts and it begins to”