No it did not disintegrate 'quickly' after his death; nor did it 'begin to disintegrate' during his reign. In fact Alamgir's successor Bahadur Shah I(1707-1712) had retained all of the territory and much of the influence all through his short reign.A few more years of his reign and he would rightly have been considered the seventh great Mughal.The actual disintegration started when Nizam-ul-mulk decided to pull out Hyderabad from the empire in 1724. That was the first time in 200 years that a prominent general (and establishment insider) thought nothing of depriving his territory of the safety and prestige which flowed from the Emperor in Agra/ Delhi. That trickle turned into a deluge in no time with far flung provinces declaring independence from the emperor and a once glorious empire collapsed like a pack of cards.The influence took a little longer to wane though. Apart from scores of Kings and Nawabs, even the British East India Company struck it's coins in the name of the nominal Emperor of Hindustan--as late as 1818. Hatred for the partition and pakistan should not automatically translate to hatred for all things Muslim. Before the separatist mentality took over, there were things Muslim that were beautiful. As with other good things in life those didnt last long. Peace. Safi-ul-Islam, Mohammed
