Medieval Indian History MCQs

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Syed Mir Nisar Ali Titumir was the founder of the Wahabi movement in Bangladesh. He met Syed Ahmad in Mecca.

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Mihir Bhoja who ruled from 836 C.E. to 885 C.E. had his capital at Kannauj. It was also called Mahodaya. In one of the earliest inscriptions of Mihir Bhoja, the Barah copper plate inscription, there is mention of a military camp at Mahodaya.

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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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‘Travels in India’ is the account of Travernier. Jean Baptste Tavernier made six voyages to Persian and India between 1630 and 1668. He was a gem merchant as well as a historian.

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Mahmud of Ghazni was the first independent ruler of the Turkic dynasty of Ghaznavids which ruled from 999 A.D. to 1030 A.D. He was the eldest son of Subuktagin, and had inherited his father’s martial spirit and organizational abilities.

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The Persian poet, Firdausi also completed his epic Shah Namah which is also called as Book of Kings at the court of Mahmud of Ghazni in about 1010 A.D.

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Razia Sultan was the first and only female Muslim ruler of medieval India. She appointed an Abyssinian slave, Malik Jamaluddin Yaqut, to the important office Amir-i-akhur, which was the Superintendent of royal horses.

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Balban suppressed the disturbances in Mewat, Doab, Awadh, and Katihar. He secured the control over Ajmer and Nagaur in eastern Rajputana but his attempts to capture Ranthambore and Gwalior failed.

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Alauddin married Kamla Bai who was the wife of  Rai Karan, the ruler of Gujarat and acquired Malik Kafur who was an eunuch, who later led the Khalji dynasty invasions to South India. Malik Kafur also became reason of death of Alauddin.

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Khusrau Khan belonged to the Baradu Hindu military clan. He was He was captured by the Delhi army during Alauddin Khalji’s conquest of Malwa in 1305. After being brought to Delhi as a slave, he converted to Islam. He was one of the favourites of Mubarak Shah but later he not only hatched a conspiracy against Mubarak Shah but also got murdered him in 1320 and himself ascended the throne. He remained the Sultan for only 2 months with title “Nasiruddin”.He was soon deposed by a group of rebels led by the noble Ghazi Malik, who succeeded him on the throne as Ghiasuddin Tughlaq. This ended Khilji dynasty and installed Tughlaq dynasty on Delhi sultanate.