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write in detail about the grant trunk road built by sher shah you can make a project why it was built which part of India it was connected and so on​

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Answered by jahanvi1909aes
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The Grand Trunk Road formerly known as Uttarapath, Sarak-e-Azam, Badshahi Sarak, Sarak-e-Sher Shah is one of Asia's oldest and longest major roads. For at least 2,500 years, it has linked Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent. ... The road was considerably rebuilt in the British period between 1833 and 1860.In the colonial era the British developed an ancient route into a highway across the breadth of their realm. During the British rulers of colonial India, the road was renamed as the Grand Trunk Road. Rudyard Kipling called it 'a river of life', but for the modern driver it's a nightmare.

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Answered by srnroofing171711
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The Grand Trunk Road formerly known as Uttarapath, Sarak-e-Azam, Badshahi Sarak, Sarak-e-Sher Shah is one of Asia's oldest and longest major roads. For at least 2,500 years,[3] it has linked Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent. It runs roughly 2,400 km (1,491 mi)[2] from Teknaf, Bangladesh on the border with Myanmar[4][5] west to Kabul, Afghanistan, passing through Chittagong and Dhaka in Bangladesh, Kolkata, Allahabad, Delhi, and Amritsar in India, and Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Peshawar in Pakistan.[6][1]

Grand Trunk Road

Uttarapath, Sadak-e-Azam, Badshahi Sadak[a]

Route information

Length

2,400 km[2] (1,500 mi)

Status

Currently functional

Existed

before 322 BCE–present

History

Mahajanapadas, Maurya, Sur, Mughal and British Empires

Time period

3rd century BCE-present

Cultural

significance

History of the Indian subcontinent and South Asian history

Major junctions

East end

original terminus was Teknaf, Bangladesh but after the partition of India the road was terminated in Kolkata

West end

Kabul, I Gazani in Afghanistan ,

Location

Major cities

Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Feni, Comilla, Narayanganj, Dhaka, Rajshahi, Howrah, Lahore, Gujranwala, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Jalalabad, Kabul, Kolkata, Durgapur, Varanasi, Allahabad, Kanpur, Agra, Mathura, Aligarh, Delhi, Sonipat, Panipat, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Ambala, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar

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