UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2025 · Q1(a) · 10 marks
“The Sikh monarchy was Napoleonic in the suddenness of its rise, the brilliancy of its success and the completeness of its overthrow.”
- Chapter
- British Expansion in India
- Topic
- Punjab and the Sikhs
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