Medieval Indian History

1. Who wrote about Saurashutra, the men all derive their livelihood from the sea and engage in commerce and exchange of commodities”?
(a) I-tsing (b) Marco Polo
(c) Fa-Hien (d) Hieun-tsang
Answer (A)

2. Which of the Pratihara rulers fought a war with Kashmir ‘?
(a) Mahendrapala I
(b) Bhoja
(c) Mahipala
(d) Madanpala
Answer (A)

3. Who annexed northern Chola Empire to the Rashtrakuta kingdom’?
(a) Krishna III (b) Indra III
(c) Amoghavarsha
(d) Govinda III
Answer (A)

4. Which of the dynasties is mentioned as ‘malik al-muluk’ (king of kings) by the Arab travellers?
(a) Palas (b) Rashtrakutas
(c) Pratiharas (d) Chauhans
Answer (B)

5. Which of the dynasties claimed itself as Brahma-Kshatriyas and claimed descent from the kings of Dakshinapatha?
(a) Vardhanas (b) Palas
(c) Varmans (d) Senas
Answer (D)

6. Which foreign travel ler to India remarked. ‘The great province of Ma’bar is best of all the Indies’?
(a) Ibn Battuta (b) Marco Polo
(c) Sulaiman (d) Al-Masudi
Answer (B)

7. Which city suffered Mahmud’s onslaguht after Nagarkot, Thanesar and Mathura?
(a) Kanauj (b) Somnath
(c) Ujjain (d) Anhilwara
Answer (A)

8. Which of the law givers held that eating a Shudra’s food, association with a Shudra, sitting on the same seat with a Shudra and taking lessons from a Shudra are actswhich drag down even the noblest person?
(a) Narada (b) Katyayana
(c) Gautam (d) Parasara
Answer (D)

9. Which of the Medieval chroniclers describe Razyia as “a great sovereign endowed with all the admirable attributes and qualifications?
(a) Barani
(b) Isami
(c) Minhajuddin Siraj, author of Tabagat-i-Nasiri
(d) Ibn-Battuta
Answer (C)

10. Why did Alauddin order the land revenue of the Doab to be paid directly to the state?
(a) To pay soldiers in kind
(b) To inflate prices
(c) To check smuggling
(d) Inorder to ensure a regular supply of cheap food grains
Answer (D)

11. Another experiment of Muhammad bin Tughlaq to synchronise with his transfer of capital was
(a) Introduction of ‘token currency’
(b) Land revenue
(c) Karachi] expedition
(d) Khorasan expedition
Answer (A)

12. Which of theDelhi Sultans expressed: My kingdom is diseased and illness cannot be cured by medicine…if I put things right at one place, disorders appear at another place?
(a) Balban
(b) Razyia
(c) Muhammad bin Tughlaq
(d) Alauddin Khilji
Answer (C)

13. Who said, “The princes of the house of Bahamani maintained their superiority by valour only; for in power, wealth and extent of the country, the rajas of Beejanagar greatly exceeded them.”?
(a) Abdur Razzaq (b) Nuniz
(c) Barbosa (d) Ferishta
Answer (D)

14. Who was the Vijayanagar prince credited with reinstating the divine image in the Rajasimheswara temple at Kanchi and the Ranganathswami temple at Srirangam?
(a) Achyut Raya (b) Kumar Kampana
(c) Patwardhan Raya
(d) Kumar Gopal
Answer (B)

15. Which of the Sufi Saints remarked:- “Some Hindu know that Islamis a true religion but they do not embrace Islam?
(a) Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya
(b) SalimChisti
(c) Muinuddin Chisti
(d) Gesu Deraz
Answer (A)

16. Who was the Sultan during whose reign the Indian classical work Ragadarpan was translated into Persian’?
(a) Balban
(b) Firuz Shah Tughlaq
(c) Alauddin Khilji
(d) Mubarak Sharqi
Answer (B)

17. What was common among Jayadeva, Jai Singh Suri , Ravi Varman, Vidyanath, Varman Bhatta Bana, Gangadhar and Rupa Goswami?
(a) All were dramatists
(b) All were painters
(c) All were sculptors
(d) All were court chroniclers
Answer (A)

18. Who was the Bengal ruler who annexed the Kamatapur Kingdom to Bengal?
(a) Nusrat Shah
(b) Alauddin Hussain (supported by the Ahoms)
(c) Azam Shah
(d) Sikandar Shah
Answer (B)

19. Which was the city constructed by Begarha at Champaner, which also became his principal place of residence?
(a) Mustafabad
(b) Muzaffarabad
(c) Muhammadabad
(d) Islamabad
Answer (C)

20. Who was the contemporary chronicler to comment on Timur’s invasion as: many groups of Hindus “became insolent and began to fight”?
(a) Sharafuddin Ali Yezdi
(b) Afif
(c) Isami
(d) Ferishta
Answer (A)

21. Who ruled the mightiest empire in north-India since the days of Muhammad bin Tughlaq?
(a) Babur (b) Sher Shah
(c) Humayun (d) IbrahimLodi
Answer (B)

22. When did Akbar begin his Deccan venture?
(a) 1591 (when he asked the Deccani states to acceptMughal suzerainty)
(b) 1586
(c) 1588
(d) 1590
Answer (A)

23. Why did Shahjahan order an inquiry into the assets of Bir Singh Bundela when his son Jujhar Singh arrived at the Mughal Court?
(a) Bir Singh had aided Jahangir in the suppression of Shahjahan’s revolt
(b) Bir Singh had poisoned Jahangir
(c) Bir Singh murdered Nur Jahan
(d) Bir Singh had allied with Mahabat Khan
Answer (A)

24. Who was the Mughal scholar who advised nobles “to invest little in commercial speculation and engage in remunerative undertaking”?
(a) Abul Fazl (b) Faizi
(c) Badaoni (d) Kafi Khan
Answer (A)

25. Who was the Mughal Emperor who embarked upon a policy of befriending powerful razas and zamindars?
(a) Babur
(b) Jahangir
(c) Aurangzeb
(d) Humayun
Answer (D)