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‘Annexation of Punjab was part of a broad north-west frontier policy set in motion after the exit of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.’ Critically examine.

  • UPSC 2015
  • British Expansion in India

Reading Punjab's annexation as one step in a wider north-west frontier policy shifts the explanation from a single conquest to a connected sequence stretching from Afghanistan through Sind to Punjab itself.

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  • Punjab's Internal Collapse After Ranjit Singh
  • The Broader North-West Frontier Policy
  • Weighing the "Broad Policy" Framing Against Local Causation

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