Explanation:

Both the statements are correct.
India of the eighteenth century failed to make progress economically, socially or culturally at an adequate pace. The increasing revenue demands of the state, the oppression of the officials, the greed and rapacity of the nobles, revenue-farmers and zamindars, the marches and counter-marches of the rival armies, and the depredations of the numerous adventurers roaming the land made the life of the people quite wretched.
Rise of several autonomous provinces and local chiefs and Constant warfare, raids and plundering of prosperous city centres by foreign as well as domestic forces were the another reasons.