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“Punjab’s fate after Ranjit Singh was foredoomed as the impulse of neo-Victorian Imperialism was bound to overwhelm it.” Elucidate.

  • UPSC 2010
  • British Expansion in India

The claim treats Punjab's annexation not as the product of any single crisis but as the near-inevitable outcome of British imperial momentum colliding with a kingdom that had lost the one leader capable of holding it together.

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  • Punjab's Internal Vulnerability After 1839
  • The "Neo-Victorian Imperialism" Driving British Policy
  • From Instability to Annexation

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