Sind was conquered and annexed by

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  1. Sleeman
  2. Napier
  3. Lawrence
  4. Wellington
  5. None of the above/More than one of the above

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Option 2 : Napier
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The correct answer is Napier

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  • Napier was a British military officer that served in the Peninsular War against Napoleon Bonaparte, later he led the Bombay Army in the conquest of the Sindh.
  • In the 16th and 17th centuries Sindh was ruled by the Mughals (1591–1700) and then by several independent Sindhian dynasties, the last of which lost the region to the British in 1843. At that time most of Sindh was annexed to the Bombay Presidency.
  • Whole of Sind was annexed to British Empire in 1843.
  • The territory was annexed by the Bombay Presidency of British India in 1843, following a British Indian conquest led by then Major-General Charles Napier in order to quell the insurrection of Sindhi rulers who had remained hostile to the British Empire following the First Anglo-Afghan War.
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