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HCS (Haryana)Prelims2019General Studies
Question
The historic Grand Trunk Road does not pass through which of the following districts in Haryana?
Options
- A Rohtak
- B Kurukshetra
- C Ambala
- D Panipat
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Correct Answer
A Rohtak
Model Answer
- The historic Grand Trunk Road does not pass through Rohtak district in Haryana.
- The Buddhist literature and Indian epics such as Mahabharatha provide the existence of the Grand Trunk road even before the Mauryan empire and was called Uttarpatha or the "Northern road".
- The road connected the eastern region of India with central Asia or Bactria.
- It runs roughly 2,400 km from Teknaf, Bangladesh on the border with Myanmar 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.
- It was rebuilt many times under Sher Shah Suri, the Mughals and the British along a partly similar route.
- The old route was re-aligned by Suri to Sonargaon and Rohtas.
- Hence, option A is correct.