In which year the british defeated dalip singh and annexed punjab?
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The answer is 1849.
The British defeated Dalip Singh and annexed Punjab in the year 1849. This incident of March 1849 took place soon after the end of the Second Anglo-Sikh War when Dalip Singh was just ten years old. He was moved from Lahore to Fatehgarh in December of the same year under the care of Dr John Login.
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Maharaja Duleep Singh who was also known as Sir Dalip Singh was a former king of Punjab. He cam to power to rule Punjab at the age of five after the assassination of four of his predecessors. But, when he was 10, he was surprisingly adopted(Kidnapped) by the British Crown on March 1849 and British crown annexed Punjab.
Later he exiled from his country and taken to Britain at the age of 15 and became one of the most favorite of Queen Victoria eventually he became one of the members of Freemasons. It is popularly known, Queen Victoria had been a godmother for many of Duleep Singh’s children.
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