In which year did the British annex Punjab and add it to their Indian empire?
- A.1839
- B.1846
- C.1849
- D.1856
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, 1849. Punjab was annexed by Lord Dalhousie at the close of the Second Anglo Sikh War, after the battles of Chillianwala and Gujrat, and the young Maharaja Dalip Singh was pensioned off. Option B is wrong because 1846 is the year of the Treaty of Lahore, which ended the First Anglo Sikh War: Punjab lost the Jalandhar Doab and had to accept a British resident, but it was not yet annexed, and the Treaty of Amritsar of the same year made Gulab Singh the ruler of Jammu and Kashmir. Option A is wrong because 1839 is the year Maharaja Ranjit Singh died, which opened the decade of instability that led to the wars. Option D is wrong because 1856 is the year Awadh was annexed on the ground of maladministration.
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Practice Questions
View allThe present state of Punjab was reorganised, and Haryana carved out of it, on which date?
- A.1 November 1956
- B.1 November 1966
- C.1 May 1960
- D.1 November 2000
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On that day the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 came into force: Haryana was created as a separate state, the hill districts such as Kangra, Kullu and Shimla were transferred to Himachal Pradesh, and Chandigarh was made a Union Territory to serve as the capital of both Punjab and Haryana.
Read the full explanation →Chandigarh is the shared capital of which two states?
- A.Punjab and Himachal Pradesh
- B.Punjab and Haryana
- C.Haryana and Rajasthan
- D.Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir
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Chandigarh was planned in the 1950s as the new capital of Punjab after Lahore went to Pakistan.
Read the full explanation →Of the five rivers that give the Punjab its name, which one does not flow through Indian Punjab?
- A.Sutlej
- B.Beas
- C.Ravi
- D.Chenab
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The name Punjab joins the Persian words panj, five, and ab, water, for the land watered by the Sutlej, the Beas, the Ravi, the Chenab and the Jhelum.
Read the full explanation →The Bhakra Dam, whose reservoir is the Gobind Sagar, is built on which river?
- A.Beas
- B.Ravi
- C.Sutlej
- D.Ghaggar
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Bhakra is a concrete gravity dam on the Sutlej in the Shivalik gorge at Bhakra, and the lake behind it is the Gobind Sagar.
Read the full explanation →The Harike wetland, a Ramsar site and the head works of the Indira Gandhi Canal, lies at the confluence of which two rivers?
- A.Ravi and Beas
- B.Beas and Sutlej
- C.Sutlej and Ghaggar
- D.Ravi and Chenab
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Harike, also called Hari ke Pattan, was formed by a barrage built where the Beas joins the Sutlej, and it is the largest wetland of northern India.
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