Post : Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
Programme : Medieval Indian History
Contact Address : UPSC, Man Singh Road Area New Delhi, Delhi - 110-069
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Society, Culture & Religion (1200 – 1526): Society, Position of Women, Art and Architecture, Some Landmarks, Literature, Music, Bhakti Movement,Adi Sankaracharya, Shankaradeva, Ramanuja, Madhavacharya, Ramananda, Vallabhacharya, Hindu Religious Ideas, Vithoba Cult, Sikhism, Dadu Dayal, Sufism.
✓ Which Sultanate structure contains a dome which was for the first time built on correct scientific lines?
(a) Aibak’s tomb
(b) Razyia’s tomb
(c) Alauddin Khilji’s tomb
(d) Alai Darwaza
✓ What was new about the tomb of Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq?
(a) Was originally a temple
(b) Use of pietra-dura
(c) Use of squinches
(d) It was put on a high platform; a marble dome
✓ Why did not the Tughlaqs use red sandstone in their buildings?
(a) It was costly
(b) Looked vulgar
(c) Was un-Islamic
(d) Was locally unavailable
✓ Why does the Tughlaq building have minimum decoration?
(a) Because they used the cheaper ‘greystone’ which was difficult to be carved
(b) Due to poor finances
(c) Because it was un-Islamic
(d) Sultan’s disliked it
✓ Who was the Persian poet who remarked: “Faith and infidelity, both are galloping, on the way towards Him,…. He is one....”?
(a) Firdausi
(b) Al-Beruni
(c) Al-Ghazzali
(d) Sanai
✓ Who established the Chisti Order in India?
(a) KhwajaMuinuddin Chisti; he came to India around 1192 A.D.)
(b) SalimChisti
(c) Nizamuddin Auliya
(d) Gesu Deraz
✓ What was the basic difference between the Chistis and the Suhrawardis?
(a) Suhrawardis did not believe in a life of poverty; accepted the service of the state
(b) The Chistis led married life
(c) Sudrawardis maintained harem
(d) The Sudrawardis were unIslamic
✓ Who was the Bhakti saint who denounced idol-worship, pilgrimages, bathing in holy rivers or taking part in formal worship?
(a) Ravidas
(b) Sena
(c) Kabir
(d) Pipa
✓ What was common among Jayadeva, Jai Singh Suri , Ravi Varman, Vidyanath, Varman Bhatta Bana, Gangadhar and Rupa Goswami?
(a) All were dramatists
(b) All were painters
(c) All were sculptors
(d) All were court chroniclers
✓ Who translated portions of the Ramayana and the Bhagvata Purana into Assamese?
(a) Vishnudeva
(b) Ramadeva
(c) Shankaradeva
(d) Gopaldeva
✓ Which of the Delhi Sultans regarded kings who ruled without the Caliph’s authorisation as usurpers?
(a) Muhammad bin Tughlaq
(b) Alauddin Khilji
(c) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
(d) Firuz Tughlaq
✓ Who was the Arab philosopher whose monistic ideas became popular in India in the 15th century?
(a) Mansur
(b) Shiraj
(c) Al-Ghazzali
(d) Ibn-i-Arabi
✓ Who was the Sufi saint whomade use of Hindi in his treatise ‘Haqaiq-i- Hindi’?
(a) Wahid Belgrami
(b) SalimChisthi
(c) Gesu Deraz
(d) Muinuddin Chisthi
✓ Which place in the north-west emerged as the first centre for the cultivation of Persian language?
(a) Kabul
(b) Multan
(c) Lahore
(d) Srinagar
✓ Who said: “India is the land ofmy birth and our country.... Hindustan is like heaven.... The Brahmins here are as learned as Aristotle”?
(a) Barani
(b) Amir Khusrau
(c) Isami
(d) Afif
✓ Which Sanskrit books were translated into Persian by Nakhshabi?
(a) Tutinama, Kok Shastra
(b) Amrit-kund
(c) Mahabharata & Ramayana
(d) Vedas
✓ During whose rule were books on medicine and music translated into Persian?
(a) Balban
(b) Alauddin Khilji
(c) MBT
(d) Firuz Shah Tughlaq
✓ Who was the ruler of Kashmirwho had the Rajatarangani and the Mahabharata translated into Persian?
(a) Sikandar
(b) Dulacha
(c) Shah Mir
(d) Zain-ul-Abidin
✓ Who had noted: “These languages have from ancient times applied in every way to the common purposes of life”?
(a) Amir Khusrau on regional languages
(b) Barani
(c) Minhaj Siraj
(d) Ibn Battuta
✓ Who was the ruler of Bengal who got the Mahabharata and the Ramayana translated into Bengali?
(a) Bughra Khan
(b) Nusrat Shah
(c) Tughril
(d) Bahrain Shah
✓ Who was the translator of Bhagvata Purana into Bengali under Nusrat Shah’s patronage?
(a) Siddhartha Basu
(b) Anurag Basu
(c) Maladhar Basu
(d) Moloy Basu
✓ Who was the Sultan during whose reign the Indian classical work Ragadarpan was translated into Persian’?
(a) Balban
(b) Firuz Shah Tughlaq
(c) Alauddin Khilji
(d) Mubarak Sharqi
✓ Who commented : “It was the custom after the conquest of every fort ….to ground its Foundations….to powder under the feet of .... elephants”’?
(a) Barani
(b) Khusrau
(c) Hasan Nizami
(d) Isami
✓ Which of the Delhi Sultans said, “It is by his (Caliph’s) sanction that the power of the kings is assured and no king is secure until he has submitted himself to the Khalifa”?
(a) Alauddin Khilji
(b) Balban
(c) Firuz Shah Tughlaq
(d) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
✓ What is the basic text of the Varkari sect?
(a) Karpuramanjari
(b) Bijak
(c) Varkari Purana
(d) Jnaneshvari
✓ Who was the most well known exponent of Kashmir Saivism?
(a) Bhanugupta
(b) Vasugupta
(c) Abhinavagupta
(d) Abhinava Shankar
✓ Whom did Guru Arjun invite to lay the foundation stone of Harmandir Sahib’?
(a) Mian Mir, (a Sufi saint)
(b) Madhu Mian (c) Mian Tipu
(d) Shariatullah Mia
✓ Which Sikh Guru established centre for spreading Nanak’s teachings?
(a) Hari Rai
(b) Hargobind
(c) Guru Angad
(d) Harkishan
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