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  "textContent": "An excerpt from ‘When the Sikhs Conquered Delhi: How the Sikhs Defeated the Mughals’, by Arvinder S Brara.",
  "title": "How Banda Singh Bahadur founded – and defended – the first Sikh empire against the Mughals"
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