Medieval Indian History MCQs

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Sultan Sikandar lodi introduced a new gaz system of Gaz-i-sikandari (or Sikandar’s yard) that means 32 digit of measuring system of cultivated lands.

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Iqbalnama-i-Jahangiri is a book written by Mutamid Khan, a military officer in the army of Mughal Emperor Jahangir. Khan wrote the book in the final years of Jahangir’s reign, after the completion of Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri. The book is divided into three parts, with the first part covering the history of Amir Timur to Humanyun.

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The earliest evidence of a Jewish community settling in India is provided by a charter of a Viiayanagara king.

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Futuh-i-Salatin is a poetical history of the Sultans of India from the rise of the Ghazanvi dynasty up to the reign of Sultan Muhammad Bin Tughluq. Translated as “Gifts of the Sultans”, it is a history of Muslim rule in India until 1349-50. Isami also called it Shahnama-i Hind (“the Shahnameh of India”). According to Isami, his sources included anecdotes, legends, and reports by his friends and acquaintances.

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• Rashidun Caliphate (632–661)
• Umayyad Caliphate (661–750)
• Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258)
• Ottoman Caliphate : They claimed Caliphate authority from 1517

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Vigraharja IV also known as Visaladeva, who ruled from 1150 C.E. to 1164 C.E.  was a Chahamana king of north-western India. He turned the Chahamana kingdom into an empire by subduing nearly all the neighboring kings. He conquered Delhi from the Tomara chief.

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During Medieval India, the Barid-i-Mumalik was the head of the intelligence and news-gathering branch of the Delhi Sultanate that reigned between 1210 and 1526. Tasked with collecting, reporting, and assessing information significant to the Sultan, such intelligence was deemed critical for effective local governance. Throughout the vast country, these intelligence agents known as Munihiyan or reporters, dispatched their surveillance data to the Barid-i-Mumalik.

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Mongol invader Genghis khan came through the northwestern front of India in the reign of Iltutmish. Genghis khan destroyed the Khwarizmi dynasty. The ruler of Khwarizmi empire sought refuge to Iltutmish . But , Iltutmish refused to give asylum to the Khwarizmi emperor and saved Delhi from the invasion of Genghis Khan

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The ‘Battle of Rawar’ was fought between Dahir, the powerful king of Sind  and the Arab invader Muhammad-bin-Qasim. Dahir waited with a huge army of 50,000 sword men, horsemen and elephantry at a place called Rawar.

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In the early medieval period, the region between Ghazni and Herat was ruled by the kingdom of Ghurs. They rapidly rose to power during the last half of the twelfth century.