The principality of Indargarh remained unimpaired during Aurangzeb's and some of the later Mughals'reigns, but had rather a precarious existence during the ascendancy of the Marathas in the 18th century A . D . During this period, the ruler of Indargarh was sometimes constrained to side with the Marathas, the allies of the Bundela Chief, but when left uncoerced joined forces with the neighboring Jat Chiefs of Pichhor and Gohad to resist the Southern intruders.
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By contrast, Steiner held that uncoerced, freely self-organizing forms of " cooperative " economic life, in a society where there is freedom of speech, of culture, and of religion, will 1 ) make State intervention in the economy less necessary or called for, and 2 ) will tend to permit economic interests of a broader, more public-spirited sort to play a greater role in relations extending from the economy to the State.