Medieval Indian History MCQs

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In the Vijayanagar Kingdom, rulers created their own architecture style “Provida style” that plays a lot of significance on piers and pillars. They had inscribed the tales from Ramayana and Mahabharata on the various temple that they have established viz. Vithalswami Temple and Hazari temple at Humpi at Karanataka. In all depictions, horse was the most common animal found in the pillars of the architecture of Vijayanagar empire.

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• Ab’ul Hasan Yamin ud-Din Khusrau is better known as Amir Khusrow was a Sufi musician, poet and scholar from India.
• The Din-I Idaho was a syncretism religion propounded by the Munhall emperor Akbar in 1582 CE, intending to merge some of the elements of the religions of his empire, and thereby reconcile the differences that divided his subjects.
• The Nqutu Miner is a towering 73 meter high tower built by Nqutu-us-Din aback in 1193. The tower was built to celebrate Muslim dominance in Delhi after the defeat of Delhi’s last Hindu ruler. This tower is the highest tower in India, complete with five storey’s and projecting balconies.
• Chan Bandai was a court poet of the king. The earliest extant copy of the text dates back to the 13th century.

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He was defeated in the battle at Agra on 10 January 1713 by Farrukhsiyar, his nephew and the second son of Azim-ush-Shan, with the support of the Sayyid Brothers. He fled to Delhi where he was captured and handed over to the new Emperor, who confined him along with Lal Kunwar. He lived in confinement for a month, until 11 February 1713, when professional stranglers were sent to murder him.

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Yahya Bin Ahmed Bin Abdullah Sarhindi had collected historical information from various other sources for his book Tarikh-i-Mubarakshahi after the death of Saiyid Sultan Mubarak Shah about the middle of the fifteenth century.

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Battle of Bahraich (1033) was a decisive battle between Raja Suheldev and Saiyyad Salar Masud of Ghazni in 1033 AD. This battle was fought near Bahraich city, Uttar Pradesh. In this battle, the invading Ghaznavid army of 100,000 people was completely annihilated leading the a pause on Muslim conquests for more than a century thereafter. The Ghaznavides were completely routed from all areas except Multan and Lahore. (This was in June 1033 AD at Behraich when Salar Masood Ghazni was killed with his entire Army with not a single person left alive. Raja Bhoj who ruled for around 50 years from 1000 to 1050 AD played a big role in this defeat of Masood. The tomb of Salar Masood Ghazni is still there in Behraich, Uttar Pradesh).

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Balban was brought to delhi in 1232 AD where Iltutmish bought him in 1233 AD after Gwalior victory. Impressed by his abilities , Iltutmish gave him a title of Khasdaar . During the reign of Razia , he earned the rank of Amir – e – Shikar . In the conspiracy against raziya , he was with Turkish warlords , consequently Bahramshah became the sultan , and Balban got the title of Amir – e – Akhur.

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The Qutub Minar , situated on the south side of the Quwwat- al – Islam mosque , was built in the early 13th century. Its first storey dates from the reign of Qutubuddin Aibak. The inscription of the first storey are primarily Quranic, while those of the additional four storey are mainly historical epigraphs dating from the reigns of Iltutmish and Firoz shah Tughlaq.

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Khwaja Nizam-ud-Din Ahmad Bakshi was a Muslim historian of late medieval India. He was the son of Muhammad Muqim-i-Harawi. Nizamuddin Ahmad wrote the book Tabaqat-i-Akbari which is a general history of the Muslim rule in India coming down to the year of its composition.

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Tarikh-i-Akbar Shahi was written by Muhammad Arif Qandahari. The text presents a general survey of Muslim rule in India starting from Mahmud of Ghazni to the middle of the sixteenth century.

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Three years after the conquest of Multan, Muhammad Ghori again marched to conquer Gujarat in 1178 CE but the Chalukya ruler of Gujarat, Solanki Bhima II, defeated him at the battle of Kayadara.