![]() ![]() The last part of South Asia to fall to colonial rule, Punjab occupied a significant position in the British Raj, with its plains producing vast surpluses and its denizens forming a disproportionate majority in the British Indian armed forces. It was in the turbulent Punjab that the Sikh religion first emerged in the 15th century, and it was with the Sikhs, in 1849, that Punjab fell to yet another conqueror, the British East India Company, at the conclusion of the Second Anglo-Sikh War. If the Khyber was the door to Hindustan, Punjab was the foyer, with conquerors from Alexander to the Hephthalites to Babur having established their first (or only) foothold in South Asia in the Punjab. ![]() Punjab, a vast river basin straddling the Hindu Kush and the Gangetic Plain has for centuries served as the entry point to the South Asia peninsula. ![]()
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