UPSC Prelims · 2002 · GS Paper I · Q51
The motive behind Shahjahan’s Balkh campaign was to
- (A)secure a friendly ruler in Balkh and Badakshan which bordered Kabul
- (B)conquer Samarqand and Farghana, the Mughal homelands
- (C)fix the Mughal frontier on the ‘scientific line’, the Amu Daria
- (D)expand the Mughal Empire beyond the sub-continent
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Answer: (B) conquer Samarqand and Farghana, the Mughal homelands
- Subject
- History
- Chapter
- Mughal Empire
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