Post : Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
Regional Centres of Power: Kamarupa, Gujarat, Malwa, Mewar, Sharqis, Kashmir
Programme : Medieval Indian History
Contact Address : UPSC, Man Singh Road Area New Delhi, Delhi - 110-069
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✓ In what hope did Rana Sanga invite Babur?
(a) To become the sole arbiter of Rajasthan’s destiny
(b) That the destruction of the Lodis would leaveMewar as the strongest state.
(c) To have control over the horse trade
(d) To have control overMedini Rai
✓ Who was the most famous Sultan inthe Ilyas Shah dynasty’?
(a) Sikandar
(b) Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah (1389- 1409)
(c) Ilyas Shah
(d) Bahram Shah
✓ Why was Mahmud nicknamed ‘Begarha’?
(a) Had long beard
(b) For his voracious appetite
(c) Because he was homeless
(d) Because he captured two powerful forts: Champaner and Girnar
✓ Which city became the second capital of Gujarat during the reign of Begarha?
(a) Muzaffarabad
(b) Mustafabad (founded by Begarha at Girnar)
(c) Islamabad
(d) Mustatanagar
✓ Which was the city constructed by Begarha at Champaner, which also became his principal place of residence?
(a) Mustafabad
(b) Muzaffarabad
(c) Muhammadabad
(d) Islamabad
✓ Which state commanded the trunk routes between Gujarat and northern India, as also between north and south India?
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Malwa
(c) Orissa
(d) Karnataka
✓ Who was the treasurer as as adviser of Hushang Shah’?
(a) Baladeva Soni
(b) Naradeva Soni
(c) Haradeva Soni
(d) Jaideva Soni
✓ Marwar became independent ofMewar under the leadership of
(a) Mokalla
(b) Jaswant Singh
(c) Rao Bika
(d) Rao Jodha (founder of Jodhpur)
✓ Who was the first to assert independence dependence in the Ganga valley after Firuz Shah Tughlaq’s death
(a) Khizr Khan
(b) Muhammad Sarwar
(c) Mahmud Sarwar
(d) Malik Sarwar (Malik-usSharq)
✓ Which Lodi ruler annexed the Sharqi kingdom?
(a) Sikandar Lodi
(b) Daulat Khan Lodi
(c) IbrahimLodi
(d) Bahlul Lodi (1484)
✓ Who was the Afghan historian to comment: “The Afghans of Roh came like locusts to join the service of Sultan Bahlul”?
(a) Isami
(b) Abbas Khan Sarwani
(c) Abdur Razzaq
(d) Ferishta
✓ Who was the Lodi ruler who abolished the octroi duty on grains and established a new system of measurement?
(a) Sikandar Lodi
(b) Behlul Lodi
(c) IbrahimLodi
(d) Daulat Khan Lodi
✓ What was the name of Sikandar Lodi’s new measurement?
(a) Gazz-i-illahi
(b) Gazz-i-magbul
(c) Gazz-i-jama
(d) Gazz-i-sikandari
✓ Under whose rule did the persecution of Brahmanas begin in Kashmir?
(a) Shah Mir
(b) Sikandar Shah (1389-1413)
(c) Zainul Abedin
(d) Didda
✓ What measures were taken by Zainul Abedin which came to be termed as pro-Hindu’?
(a) Abolition of Jizyah and cow slaughters
(b) Withdrawal of the ban on sati
(c) Only (a) is correct
(d) Both (a) & (b) are correct
✓ Who was the contemporary chronicler to comment on Timur’s invasion as: many groups of Hindus “became insolent and began to fight”?
(a) Sharafuddin Ali Yezdi
(b) Afif
(c) Isami
(d) Ferishta
✓ The Bengal ruler who had close relations with Hafiz (Persian poet) and re-established relations with China was
(a) Ilyas Shah
(b) Sikandar Shah
(c) Alauddin Husain
(d) Ghiyasuddin AzamShah
✓ Who was the compiler of Sri Krishna- Vijaya, who had been granted the title of ‘Gunaraja Khan’?
(a) Dipak Basu
(b) Maladhar Basu
(c) Anurag Basu
(d) PremKumar Basu
✓ Which Bengal ruler adopted the policy of offering high offices to Hindus?
(a) Alauddin Hussain
(b) Azam Shah
(c) Nusrat Shah
(d) Bahram Shah
✓ Who was theBengal rulerwho annexed the Kamatapur kingdomto Bengal?
(a) Nusrat Shah
(b) AlauddinHussain (supported by the Ahoms)
(c) Azam Shah
(d) Sikandar Shah
✓ Who was the person who proclaimed himself as the ruler of Gujarat in 1407 with the title of Muzaffar Shah?
(a) Bahadur Khan
(b) Alauddin Khan
(c) Ahmad Khan (d) Zafar Khan
✓ Who s the real founder of the kingdom of Gujarat who also shifted the capital from Patan to Ahmedabad?
(a) Ahmad Shah I (1411-43)
(b) Zafar Khan
(c) Muzaffar Khan
(d) Bahadur Khan
✓ Which was the strong fort of Saurashtra conquered by Ahmad Shah I?
(a) Champaner
(b) Patan
(c) Girnar
(d) Ahilwara
✓ Who claims that the founder of the Saiyid dynasty was a descendant of the Prophet?
(a) Badaoni
(b) Abul Fazl
(c) Abbas Khan Sarwani
(d) Yahya Sirhindi, author of Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi
✓ Which work says that IbrahimLodi was the only Sultan of India to have been killed on the battle field?
(a) Baburnama
(b) Humaynama
(c) Tarikh-i-khan-i-jahani
(d) Tuzuk-i-Baburi
✓ Who was the ruler of Gujarat killed by the Portuguese?
(a) Sultan Bahadur Shah
(b) Ahmad Shah
(c) Zafar Khan
(d) Dialawar Ghori
✓ What was the most important development in years between the death of Rana Kumbha and the rise of Rana Sanga’?
(a) Decline of Orissa
(b) Decline of Vijayanagar
(c) Fragmentation of the Bahamani kingdom
(d) Decline ofMalwa
✓ Who was the Kachhwaha ruler who fought under Rana Sanga in the Battle of Kanhwa?
(a) Skanda
(b) Udai Singh
(c) Prithviraj
(d) Sangram Singh
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