The eighteenth-century political formations are studied from Aurangzeb's death in 1707 to the third battle of Panipat in:

1. Aurangzeb's Deccan wars had drained the empire. 2. The period closes with Panipat in 1761. 3. By 1765 the British held much of eastern India. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts II, Chapter 10, Eighteenth-Century Political Formations._