HIS4(4) B06 INDIAN HISTORY-II

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote An Introduction to the Study of Indian History?

(a) R.S. Sharma

(b) D.D. Kosambi

(c) D. N. Jha

(d) Mortimer Wheeler

2. The famous paper entitled “Was There Feudalism in Indian History? belongs to

(a) B N S Yadava

(b) D. C. Sircar

(c) Harbans Mukhia

(d) D.N. Jha

3. Which among the following is/are the structural models related to the early Indian society?

(a) Polity based on Feudal System

(b) Theory of Integrated polity

(c) Theory of Segmentary State

(d) All the above

4. What is Samanta system

(a) A system of taxation

(b) A political system based on hierarchy of vassals

(c) A system of measuring land

(d) A system of coinage in medieval India

5. With which dynasty did Indian Muslims start entering into positions of power?

(a) Tughluqs

(b) Ilbaris

(c) Khaljis

(d) Sayyids

6. Which tax was not permitted by the shariat?

(a) Agriculture tax

(b) Tax on non-Muslims

(c) Commercial tax

(d) Marriage tax

7.Which was not true about jizya?

(a) It was a tax on non-Muslims.

(b) Brahmins were generally exempted from it.

(c) The first ruler to collect it in India was Firoz Tughluq.

(d) It never yielded any substantial revenue.

8. The iqtadars during the period of the Delhi sultanate were also known as

(a) maliks

(b) muqtis

(c) mamlatdars

(d) munhias

9. How many jitals made up a tanka?

(a) 44

(b) 40

(c) 48

(d) 46

10. Who is identified as Tamerlane?

(a) Mahmud of Ghazni

(b) Muhammad of Ghur

(c) Timur

(d) Chengiz Khan

11. Diwan-i-kohi, created by Muhammad Tughluq, looked after

(a) revenue collection

(b) agriculture

(c) public welfare

(d) crown land

12. Who was the first Sultan to pay soldiers in cash instead of through iqtas?

(a) Iltutmish

(b) Balban

(c) Muhammad Tughluq

(d) Ala-ud-din Khalji

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13. Who introduced token currency in China before Muhammad Tughluq

introduced it in India?

(a) Qublai Khan

(b) Chengiz Khan

(c) Timur

(d) Qutub-ud-din Aibak

14. Who was a shahna?

(a) Military commander

(b) Spy

(c) District head

(d) Market superintendent

15. Who completed Qutub Minar?

(a) Qutub-ud-din Aibak

(b) Raziya

(c) Iltutmish

(d) Balban

16. What was araghatta?

(a) A machine to break forts

(b) An irrigation canal

(c) A device to lift water

(d) A type of cloth

17. Charai was a tax on

(a) Hindus

(b) houses

(c) milch cattle

(d) craftsmen

18.Who among the following medieval historians commented that death liberated

Muhammad Tughluq from his people and freed them from him?

(a) Badauni

(b) Barani

(c) Isami

(d) Ibn Battutah

19. What was kharaj?

(a) A tribute

(b) Booty

(c) Land tax

(d) Gift

20. Who were the rais and ranas?

(a) Intelligence officers

(b) Poets under sultanate

(c) Local chiefs who opposed Sultans

(d) Police officers

21. Who were barids?

(a) Secret agents

(b) Military chiefs

(c) Revenue collectors

(d) Elite guards

22. Under whose reign did diwan-i-arz become a separate department?

(a) Iltutmish

(b) Ala-ud-din Khalji

(c) Muhammad Tughluq

(d) Balban

23. What was the correct chronology of the Delhi sultanate?

(a) Slave, Tughluq, Khalji, Sayyid, Lodi

(b) Slave, Khalji, Tughluq, Sayyid, Lodi

(c) Khalji, Slave, Tughluq, Lodi, Sayyid

(d) Khalji, Tughluq, Slave, Sayyid, Lodi

24. Who was known as ‘Lakh Baksh’?

(a) Aibak

(b) Iltutmish

(c) Balban

(d) Raziya

25. Who introduced chahra for the first time?

(a) Iltutmish

(b) Qutub-ud-din Aibak

(c) Balban

(d) Ala-ud-din Khalji

26. The term ghanima in the Delhi Sultanate stands for

(a) Market cess

(b) irrigation tax

(c) war booty

(d) royal treasury

27. 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

28. Who introduced the famous Persian festival of Nauroz?

(a) Ala-ud-din Khalji

(b) Iltutmish

(c) Balban

(d) Firoz Tughluq

29. 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

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

(a) Jaunpur

(b) Hissar

(c) Tughluqabad

(d) Firozabad

31. 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

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

(a) Jaisingha

(b) Jayachandra

(c) Dahar

(d) Bhima

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

(a) Hindu Shahis

(b) Ghurids

(c) Arabs

(d) Karkotakas

34. 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

35. 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

36. Diwan-i-khairat was a separate department of

(a) public works and welfare

(b) slaves

(c) agriculture

(d) foreign affairs

37. Who was the founder of the city of Agra?

(a) Ala-ud-din Khalji

(b) Muhammad Tughluq

(c) Firoz Tughluq

(d) Sikandar Lodi

38. 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

39. Which of the following new ·techniques in the cotton textile industry were introduced in

India by the Turks?

(i) Spinning jenny

(ii) Spinning wheel

(iii) Water frame

(iv) Cotton-carder’s bow

(v) Weaver’s treadles

40. Match List I with List II and select the answer from the codes given below.

List I List II

(i) Dagh (A) Kissing the Sultan’s feet

(ii) Chahra (B) Branding of horses

(iii) Paibos (C)Prostration in front of the Sultan

(iv) Nauroz (D) Persian New Year

(v) Sijada (E) Descriptive roll of a soldier

(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

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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

44.Who bore the title Gajabentakara?

(a) Krishna Deva Raya

(b) Deva Raya II

(c) Deva Raya I

(d) Rama Raya

45. Which Vijayanagar ruler sent an embassy to China?

(a) Harihara I

(b) Krishna Deva Raya

(c) Bukka I

(d) Saluva Narasimha

46. What is the correct chronology of dynasties that ruled Vijayanagar?

(a) Sangama, Tuluva, Saluva, Aravidu

(b) Tuluva, Sangama, Saluva, Aravidu

(c) Aravidu, Sangama, Tuluva, Saluva

(d) Sangama, Saluva, Tuluva, Aravidu

47. 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

48. When was the Bahmani kingdom founded?

(a) 1325

(b) 1437

(c) 1347

(d) 1341

49. Which was the second capital of Vijayanagar empire?

(a) Kampili

(b) Kondavidu

(c) Penukonda

(d) Addanki

50. What was the largest administrative division in Vijayanagar?

(a) Kottam

(b) Nadu

(c) Kurram

(d) Mandalam

51. Who founded the Varakari sect in Maharashtra?

(a) Namadeva

(b) Tukaram

(c) Eknatha

(d) Ramdas

52. Who established the Chisti order in India?

(a) Nizam-ud-din Auliya

(b) Salim Chisti

(c) Shaikh Moin-ud-in Chisti

(d) Hamid-ud-din Nagauri

53. Who built a college at Bidar making it an important intellectual centre in the

Deccan?

(a) Muhammad Shah I

(b) Ahmad Shah Wali

(c) Ali Barid

(d) Mahmud Gawan

54. Who said ‘God is the breath of all breath.’?

(a) Nanak

(b) Kabir

(c) Mirabai

(d) Chaitanya

55. Dohas were

(a) Religious teachings of Sufis.

(b) A group of merchants who sent large caravans.

(c) The Muslim devotees who emphasised the personal devotion of man to God through love.

(d) Couplets which Kabir composed and by which he taught his followers.

56. Guru Nanak was born in

(a) 1469

(b) 1450

(c) 1470

(d) 1445

57. Amuktamalyada is a book on

(a) poetry

(b) dance

(c) polity

(d) music

58.Madura Vijayam written by Gangadevi describes

(a) Battle of Bannihatti

(b) Sri Krishna Deva Raya’s conquests

(c) capture of Madura by Kampana

(d) court of Harihara-I

59. Who wrote Gangadasa Pralapa Vilasam?

(a) Allasani Peddana

(b) Tenali Ramakrishna

(c) Ramabhadrudu

(d) Gangadhara

60. What were varahas?

(a) Couplets of poetry

(b) Gold coins

(c) Guilds

(d) Assembly

61. Amuktamalyada was written in

(a) Sanskrit

(b) Tamil

(c) Telugu

(d) Kannada

62. City of Nagalapura was built by

(a) Bukka I

(b) Deva Raya I

(c) Krishna Deva Raya

(d) Virupaksa

63. Sangama brothers, who founded Vijayanagar, were originally in the service of

(a) Kampili kingdom

(b) Hoyasala kingdom

(c) Kakatiya kingdom

(d) Yadava kingdom

64. Who was responsible for developing the Gurumukhi script?

(a) Guru Arjun

(b) Gobind Singh

(c) Nanak

(d) Guru Angad

65. Who was murid?

(a) Sufi saint

(b) Sufi teacher

(c) A disciple

(d) Hospice

66. A silsilah was a

(a) tomb

(b) shrine

(c) a Sufi order

(d) hospice

67. Suddhadvaita was propounded by

(a) Ramanuja

(b) Namadeva

(c) Tukaram

(d) Vallabhacharya

68. Who wrote Dasabodha?

(a) Kabir

(b) Nanak

(c) Ramdas

(d) Tukaram

69. Who started the Khalsa in Sikh religion?

(a) Guru Angad

(b) Guru Gobind Singh

(c) Guru Tegh Bahadur

(d) Guru Arjun

70. Who wrote Sur Sarawali?

(a) Mirabai

(b) Chaitanya

(c) Tulsidas

(d) Surdas

71. Which one of the following places was known as the ‘Shiraz-i-Hind’?

(a) Malwa

(b) Khandesh

(c) Sonargaon

(d) Jaunpur

72. Which one of the following rulers of Kashmir has been described as the Akbar of

Kashmir?

(a) Azam Shah

(b) Zain-ul Abidin

(c) Shihab-ud-din Shah

(d) Shah Mir

73. According to Abdur Razzaq, the pay of the policemen of Vijayanagar was paid from the

proceeds of

(a) brothels

(b) taxes on goods

(c) land revenue

(d) wine shops

74. What is kuttagari?

(a) Grant of land to the Brahmins

(b) Lease system of cultivation

(c) Service tenures for military

(d) Revenue farming

75. What is asthavana?

(a) Land revenue department

(b) A type of rice

(c) One-third of the produce of land

(d) House tax

76. The term senabova or sanbhoga was an official designation under Vijayanagar kingdom.

It refers to the

(a) chief judicial officer of the mandalam.

(b) chief of the military staff.

(c) village accountant.

(d) head of the accounts department.

77. In which language did Babur write his memoirs, called Tuzuk-i-Baburi?

(a) Persian

(b) Arabic

(c) Mongol

(d) Turkish

78. Which revenue system among the following is also known as the bandobast system?

(a) Zabti

(b) Dahsala

(c) Nasaq

(d) Kankut

79. What was the original name of Nur Jahan?

(a) Zeb-un-nisa

(b) Fatima Begum

(c) Mihr-un-nisa

(d) Jahanara

80. Which Mughal is credited with prohibiting sati unless the widow herself, of her own free

will, persistently desired it?

(a) Akbar

(b) Babur

(c) Humayun

(d) Jahangir

81.Who among the following Englishmen was given the title of ‘Khan’ by Jahangir?

(a) Thomas Roe

(b) Ralph Fitch

(c) Hawkins

(d) Newbery

82. What was duaspa-sihaspa and who introduced it?

(a) A revenue system introduced by Akbar

(b) A decorative method introduced by Shah Jahan

(c) A special rank having higher sawar than zat introduced by Aurangzeb

(d) A sub rank of sawar introduced by Jahangir.

83. Who among the following Mughal ministers was the paymaster-general as well?

(a) Diwan

(b) Mir Bakshi

(c) Khan-i-Saman

(d) Vakil

84. Who were the harkaras of the Mughal period?

(a) Enforcers of public morals

(b) News writers and reporters

(c) Secret letter writers and informers

(d) Spies and special couriers

85. What was Jajmani system of the Mughal period?

(a) A revenue system in which revenues of different units of land were assigned to officials in

lieu of salaries.

(b) An administrative system in which ranks in terms of numbers were assigned to nobles,

military commanders and other prominent people for placing them in the official hierarchy.

(c) A reciprocal system that existed in rural India between the peasantry and other

occupational groups.

(d) A commercial system that developed in urban India for facilitating commercial

transactions on a large scale.

86. During Akbar’s reign, a group of scholars translated Mahabharata into Persian from

Sanskrit. What is this Persian version called?

(a) Sakinat-ul-Auliya

(b) Razm Namah

(c) Iqbal Namah

(d) Akbar Namah

87. Which of the following revenue systems were Akbar’s own innovations?

(i) Batai

(ii) Kankut

(iii) Nasaq

(iv) Zabti

(v) Dahsala

Select the answer from the codes below:

(a) i and iv

(b) ii and v

(c) iii and iv

(d) iv and v

88. Who translated Tuzuk-i-Baburi into Persian?

(a) Abul Fazl

(b) Amir Khusrau

(c) Abdur Rahim

(d) Daulat Khan

89. Who wrote Tabaqat-i-Akbari?

(a) Abul Fazl

(b) Badauni

(c) Munim Khan

(d) Nizam-ud-din Ahmad

90. Who was the in-charge of a pargana?

(a) Amil

(b) Pattidar

(c) Shiqdar

(d) Qanungo

91. Which of the following varieties of land during Mughal period did not yield any land

revenue to the state?

(a) Khalisa

(b) Jagir

(c) Sayur ghal

(d) Raiyati

92. What portion of actual produce was fixed as the demand of the state under the zabti?

(a) one-half

(b) one-third

(c) one-fourth

(d) one-fifth

93. Akbar’s enlightened religious policy was based on his philosophy of sulh-i-kul which

meant

(a) universal tolerance

(b) universal peace

(c) enlightened benevolence

(d) unity of godhead

94. The police chief of a city was called

(a) qazi

(b) faujdar

(c) kotwal

(d) qilahdar

95. To assist the Maratha king, there was a council of state ministers known as

(a) Ashtadigvajas

(b) Navaratnins

(c) Ashtapradhaan

(d) qilahdar

96. Under Maratha administration who was Dabir?

(a) Prime Minister

(b) Chief Justice

(c) Foreign secretary

(d) Superintendent

97. Shivaji was born at

(a) Nasik

(b) Pune

(c) Chittor

(d) Shivneri

98. Dalals were

(a) Merchants

(b) Brokers

(c) Travellers

(d) In charge of inns

99. Who wrote Ta’arikh-i-Firuzshahi

(a) Amir Khusru

(b) Ziauddin Barani

(c) Badayuni

(d) Abdur razzak

100. During the Mughal period the Karwanis or Nayakas were

(a) Village heads

(b) Merchants

(c) Court poets

(d) Scribs

Answer Key

1. b 2. c 3. d 4. b 5. c 6. d 7. c 8. b 9. c 10. c 11. b 12. d 13. a 14. d 15. d 16. c 17. c

18. d 19. c 20. c 21. a 22. d 23. b 24. a 25. d 26. c 27. a 28. c 29. b 30. c 31. c 32. c

33. a 34. d 35. d 36. a 37. d 38. b 39. d 40. b 41. d 42. a 43. b 44. b 45. c 46. d 47. b

48. c 49. c 50. d 51.b 52.c 53.d 54. b 55.d 56. a 57.c 58.c 59.d 60. b 61.c 62.c 63.c 64. d

65.c 66.c 67.d 68.c 69.b 70.d 71.d 72.b 73.a 74.b 75.a 76.c 77.d 78.a 79.c 80.a 81.c 82.d

83.b 84.d 85.c 86.b 87.d 88.c 89.d 90.c 91.c 92.b 93.b 94.c 95.c 96.c 97.d 98.b 99.b 100.b

Prepared by

Sri. Vivek A B

Assistant Professor (History)

School of Distance Education

University of Calicut