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, Buckley) argue that Gandhi and JP II overthrew tyranny.
The armed forces finally overthrew him in a popular bloodless coup, known as the “Carnation Revolution,” on 25 April 1974.
This stratagem was to fail, as the Manchus eventually broke through, overthrew the Ming, seized Beijing, and established the Qing Dynasty in 1644 �� China’s last imperial line.
After 1868 that center grew even stronger, when the movement known as the Meiji Restoration overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate and the imperial court moved to Edo.
Shahjahan’s son was Aurangzeb (1658–1707), who overthrew his father and imprisoned him in the Agra fort for the last years of his life.