SSC GD 2025 PYQ — Question 38

The correct answer is option 1 i.e. Shakas.

• The Sakas (also written Shakas), alternatively referred to as Indo-Scythians, invaded northwest India in the first century BC onwards.
• They migrated into northwestern India, including the region of Taxila (in modern-day Pakistan), in the 1st century BC, after being pushed out of their homeland by other nomadic groups like the Yuezhi (who later became the Kushanas).
• The Shakas displaced the earlier ruling Hellenistic dynasty, the Indo-Greeks, establishing their own power centers in the region.