The Ring-Fence policy was a doctrine enacted by Warren Hasting which involved defending their neighbors' frontiers in order to safeguard their... View Article
Following the end of the second Anglo-Sikh War in 1849, the Kohinoor was given by Duleep Singh to Lord Dalhousie as part of the treaty of Lahore.... View Article
Maharaja Ranjit Singh won Lahore in July 1799. This event would lead to the formation of the powerful Sikh Empire that would dominate the... View Article
Lala Lajpat Rai is known as the Lion of Punjab. He was an independence activist who played a crucial role in the Independence movement. Lala... View Article
The decline of the Sikh Empire can be attributed to the following factors: The death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh led to internal corruption and... View Article
The Sikh Empire was defeated in a series of conflicts with the British Empire known as the Anglo-Sikh Wars. The cause for the downfall of the... View Article
Punjab was conquered by the East India Company in 1849. It was one of the last regions of the Indian subcontinent to fall to the British. In... View Article
The Arab Umayyads carried further military campaigns in India after the conquest of Sindh in 712 AD. Major arab expeditions were defeated by:... View Article
There are multiple reasons as to why Sindh was not partitioned like Bengal and Punjab was. Some of them are as follows: The population of... View Article
Sind was ruled by the Talpur Dynasty before the arrival of the British. They ruled from 1783 until 1843 until their defeat by the British at the... View Article
The 712 AD Arab conquest of Sindh refers to the Umayyad military campaigns under General Mohammad Bin Qasim. These military campaigns led to the... View Article
Sindh was conquered by the Arab armies of Muhamad Bin Qasim, a general who served under the Umayyad caliphate. Invading the region in 712 AD, the... View Article
Canada has the most natural lakes in the world followed by Russia and USA. About 9% of Canada’s surface area is covered by lakes. The Great... View Article
The magnetic field varies in strength over the earth's surface. The Earth’s magnetic field is weakest at the equator and strongest at the... View Article
Earth's magnetic field is strongest at the poles and weakest at the equator. The Earth's magnetic field resembles that of an enormous bar magnet.... View Article
All parallels north of the equator are called north latitudes and all parallels south of the equator are called south latitudes. The value of... View Article
The two main longitudes are the Prime Meridian and the 180° meridian. The two longitudes divide the earth into two equal halves, the Eastern... View Article
The latitudes and longitudes are commonly referred to as geographical coordinates. They provide a systematic network of lines upon which the... View Article
