Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire

What is “Sardeshmukhi”?

Nizam Ali Khan, the __ son of Asaf Jah.

The farmana related to Mulki Rules in Hyderabad were issued by 7th Nizam in the year of ______.

In which year Hyderabad was officially declared as the capital of Nizams?

Which Mughal prince translated the Upanishads into Persian in $1657$? 

Whose administration became a model that was followed by Akbar when he consolidated the Mughal Empire?

Who among the following chroniclers wrote about Raziya and recognised that she was more able and qualified than all her brothers?

Who authored 'Akbarnama'?

Who among the following had invaded India in $712$ AD?

The Battle of Khanwa was fought between Babur and ______.

In which of the following years was the Mughal empire established by Babur?

Who among the following had written the book ‘Char Chaman’, during the reign of Shah Jahan, describing the Mughal nobility?

______ organised his trusted nobles into a group of forty known as Turkan i-Chahalgani.

What were the immediate reason for Ahmad Shah Abdali to invade India and fight the Third Battle of Panipat: Consider the following reasons:

1. He wanted to avenge the expulsion of his viceroy Timur Shah from Lahore by the Marathas

2. He was invited by the frustrated governor of Jullundhar Adina Beg Khan to invade Punjab

3. He wanted to punish Mughal administration for non-payment of revenue of the Chahar Mahal (Gujarat, Aurangabad, Sialkot and Pasrur)

4. He wanted to annex the fertile plains of Punjab up to the borders of Delhi to his kingdom

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Consider the following statements with regard to the decline of the Mughal Empire:

1. It declined as, the East India Company started becoming powerful.

2. It declined because of internal political turmoil.

3. It declined because it was unable to efficiently collect revenue from peasants.

4. It declined because of Mansabdari crisis.

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Some of the terms pertinent to medieval Indian polity and economy are given below:

1. Deshasta - A group of persons or a person indigenous to the Desh of Maharashtra

2. Dehezada - Detailed register of the villages and land-holdings in a pargana

3. Bibad - A portion of the government revenue from a district; the actual fraction varied from $16$ to $22$ percent

4. Upari - A landless labourer, often seeking refuge due to some disturbance in his home village

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Some terms pertinent to medieval Indian polity and economy are given below:

1. lstawa - A step-wise increasing revenue settlement commonly used during recovery from natural disasters or devastation

2. Nazar - Formal gift to a superior, often in return for the grant of rights, to revenue

3. Tacavi - Government loans at low rates for building or rebuilding local infrastructure

4. Rasad - The advance paid by a kamavisdar to the Maratha

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Put the following in an ascending chronological order:

1. First Battle of Panipat

2. Second Battle of Tarain

3. ·Shifting of capital from Delhi to Daulatabad

4. Ahmad Shah Abdali's invasion

Akbar's reign saw a series of initiatives

1. Abolition of Pilgrimage tax

2. Abolition of Jaziya

3. Declaration of Mahgar Naina

4. introduction of Dashala system

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Consider the following statements:

1 The state encouraged the territorial spread of brahmans and the religious institutions because it was deemed to be an act of merit

2 The state encouraged it because the state society had to cut through the barrier of disparate social norms if it were to spread horizontally.

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