INDEPENDENT KINGDOMS
As the Mughal Province crumbled, the old Mughal states started to get replaced by majorly three types of independent new states.
First were the states which already were independent but had to maintain formal ties with the Mughal province. These were states such as Awadh, Bengal and Hyderabad. Burhan-ul-Mulk Sa’adat Khan led to the formation of independent Awadh and hence was called the subedar of Awadh. Murshid Quli Khan took charge of Bengal as an independent state and was termed the naib of Bengal, and Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah gained the independence of Hyderabad from the Mughal dynasty.
The second type of emergence we witnessed was from the Watan Jagirs of Rajputs. Rajput kings had sworn their allegiance to the Mughal kingdom and were declared Vatandars. These kings belonged to the Amber and Jodhpur region, which tried to expand after gaining independence.
The third category of emerging new states was the communities that seized their independence from Mughal province. They majorly consisted of The Sikhs, The Jatts and The Marathas. Guru Gobind Singh fought wars with Mughals and Rajputs for freedom of the Punjab province, Churaman led the Jatts to acquire the area around Delhi, and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj led the formation of the Maratha dynasty.
