03/29/1849 Emerging victorious in the Second Sikh War, Great Britain annexed the Sikh kingdom of northern India. (By Brian Bockelman) Source Citation S. M. Burke and Salim Al-Din Quraishi, The British Raj in India: An Historical Review (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 25. Record Data Date Certainty Exact Type US/the World Major Topics 19th-Century World Affairs People Places India Images