Deck 2: Medieval India: Delhi Sultanate, Vijayanagar Empire and Bahmani Kingdom

Question 1

The term ghanima in the Delhi Sultanate stands for

A) market cess
B) irrigation tax
C) war booty
D) royal treasury

Answer 1

war booty

Question 2

Which Sultan of Delhi established an employment bureau, a charity bureau and a charitable hospital?

A) firoz tughluq
B) muhammad tughluq
C) ala-ud-din khalji
D) balban

Answer 2

firoz tughluq

Question 3

Who introduced the famous Persian festival of Nauroz?

A) ala-ud-din khalji
B) iltutmish
C) balban
D) firoz tughluq

Answer 3

balban

Question 4

Who was appointed as the envoy of Muhammad Tughluq in the court of the Chinese emperor?

A) barani
B) ibn battutah
C) barbosa
D) abdur razzaq

Question 5

Which one of the cities was not founded by Firoz Tughluq?

A) jaunpur
B) hissar
C) tughluqabad
D) firozabad

Question 6

What was khidamati?

A) one-fifth of the spoils of wars
B) a tax on purchase and sale of commodities
C) a tribute realised from the subjugated indian chiefs
D) a house tax demanded from the hindus

Question 7

The Hindu ruler of Sind who was defeated and deposed by the Arab invaders was

A) jaisingha
B) jayachandra
C) dahar
D) bhima

Question 8

Whom did Mahmud of Ghazni defeat to conquer and annex Peshawar and Punjab?

A) hindu shahis
B) ghurids
C) arabs
D) karkotakas

Question 9

Who was the court poet of Mahmud of Ghazni and author of Shah Namah?

A) al-beruni
B) ibn battutah
C) maulana khwajagi
D) firdausi

Question 10

Who was the first Indian ruler to defeat Muhammad of Ghur?

A) prithviraja chauhan, ruler of ajmer
B) jayachandra, gahadvala ruler of kanauj
C) lakshmana, the sena ruler of bengal
D) mularaja ii, the solanki ruler of gujarat

Question 11

Diwan-i-khairat was a separate department of

A) public works and welfare
B) slaves
C) agriculture
D) foreign affairs

Question 12

Who was the founder of the city of Agra?

A) ala-ud-din khalji
B) muhammad tughluq
C) firoz tughluq
D) sikandar lodi

Question 13

Arrange the following Delhi Sultans of the Mamluk dynasty in chronological order
(i. Nasir-ud-din Mahmud
(ii. Kaiqubad
(iii) Iltutmish
(iv. Raziya
(v. Qutub-ud-din Aibak
(vi. Balban
Select the answer from the codes given below:

A) v, i, iii, vi, iv and ii
B) v, iii, iv, i, vi and ii
C) iii, iv, i, ii, v and vi
D) iv, ii, i, vi, v and iii

Question 14

Match List I with List II and select the answer from the codes given below. List I List II (A) Kissing the Sultan's feet
(B) Branding of horses
(C)Prostration in front of the Sultan
(D) Persian New Year
(E) Descriptive roll of a soldier
(i. Dagh
(ii. Chahra
(iii) Paibos
(iv. Nauroz
(v. Sijada

A) i-b, ii-e, iii-c, iv-d, v-a
B) i-b, ii-e, iii-a, iv-d, v-c
C) i-e, ii-b, iii-a, iv-c, v-d
D) i-e, ii-a, iii-b, iv-c, v-d

Question 15

Which of the following constituted the tax-collecting officials?
(i. Rais
(ii. Khuts
(iii) Chaudharis
(iv. Muqaddams
Choose the answer from the codes below:

A) i and ii
B) ii and iii
C) i, ii and iii
D) ii, iii and iv

Question 16

Which Sultan represented himself as 'Sikandar-i-Sani' (The Second Alexander)?

A) ala-ud-din khalji
B) muhammad tughluq
C) sikandar lodhi
D) khizr khan

Question 17

Nicolo de Conti, an Italian visitor, came to Vijayanagar during the reign of

A) deva raya ii
B) deva raya i
C) harihara i
D) bukka i

Question 18

Who bore the title Gajabentakara?

A) krishna deva raya
B) deva raya ii
C) deva raya i
D) rama raya

Question 19

Which Vijayanagar ruler sent an embassy to China?

A) harihara i
B) krishna deva raya
C) bukka i
D) saluva narasimha

Question 20

Which Bahmani ruler shifted the capital from Gulbarga to Bidar?

A) ala-ud-din ii
B) ahmad shah wali
C) muhammad shah i
D) muhammad iii

Question 21

Which was the second capital of Vijayanagar empire?

A) kampili
B) kondavidu
C) penukonda
D) addanki

Question 22

What was the largest administrative division in Vijayanagar?

A) kottam
B) nadu
C) kurram
D) mandalam

Question 23

Who founded the Varakari sect in Maharashtra?

A) namadeva
B) tukaram
C) eknatha
D) ramdas