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The British conquest of Sind was both a political and moral sequel to the first Afghan War. Comment.

  • UPSC 1995
  • British Expansion in India

Calling the annexation of Sind (1843) a "sequel" to the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–42) captures how one disaster in policy directly shaped the next act of expansion, in both strategy and ethics.

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  • The Political Sequel
  • The Moral Sequel
  • Assessing the "Sequel" Framing

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