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Write short essay of not more than 200 words: The empire-builder in North India of the sixteenth century.

  • UPSC 1989
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Political History

Sher Shah Suri is the empire-builder the question points to — the one figure who reorganized North India between the first and second phases of Mughal rule.

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