Regional History | MCQs

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Maharaja Ranjit Singh founded the Sikh Empire in 1799 in the Indian subcontinent.

The empire lasted until 1849, when it was annexed by the British East India Company.

He was the founder of the first independent Sikh State.

The Sikh Empire was centered in Punjab and extended across northwestern India.

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At the peak of the Pakistan Movement, Gilgit-Baltistan was under the control of the Maharaja of Kashmir, as it was a part of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.

In 1947, following the partition, the region was later administered by Pakistan after the Kashmir conflict.

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The “Great Game” has been played for centuries in Afghanistan, known as the “graveyard of empires.”

"the graveyard of nations and empires," has been used in a figurative sense to describe the Old Testament's Book of Isaiah.

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