Expected Medieval Indian History Questions (MCQs) For SSC, Railway and UPSC Exams
Expected Medieval Indian History Questions (MCQs) - Part-1
1) Who among the following founded the Pala 2) Which of the following ruler of the Pala Empire Empire which was a Buddhist supreme power in patronised the great universities of Nalanda and ancient India? Vikramashila?
a) Gopala a) Mahipala
b) Dharmpala b) Rampala
c) Devpala c) Dharmpala
d) Narayanpala d) Narayanpala
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3) Who among the following was the greatest ruler 6) Which of the following ruler of the Rashtrakuta of the Pratihara Dynasty? dynasty wrote Kavirajamarga, the earliest Kannada book on poetics? a) Nagabhata I a) Krishna I b) Mihir Bhoja b) Govinda III c) Nagabhatta II c) Amoghvarsha I d) Mahendrapala I d) Dantidurg 4) Which of the following ruler of the Pratihara dynasty was a devotee of Vishnu and adopted the 7) Which of the following Rashtrakuta king built title of ‘Adivarah’? the famous rock-cut temple of Kailash at Ellora?
a) Nagabhata I a) Krishna I
b) Mihir Bhoja b) Govinda III
c) Nagabhatta II c) Amoghvarsha I
d) Mahendrapala I d) Dantidurg
5) Which of the following statements is/are correct 8) First Battle of Tarain was fought between the with respect to the Rashtrakutas? forces of Prithviraj Chauhan and Mohammad Ghori in which year? a) The Rashtrakutas had Kannada origin and their mother tongue was Kannada. a) 1194
b) The Rashtrakuta dynasty was founded by Govinda b) 1191 III in 8th Century AD c) 1197 c) The early kings of this dynasty were influenced by Hinduism and the later kings by Jainism d) 1199
d) Both a and c are correct 9) Which among the following statement is true regarding the Second Battle of Tarain?
1. The Second Battle of Tarain took place in the year 1192 CE Page 2 of 28
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2. Prithviraj Chauhan, the Rajput ruler of India 12) Which of the following famous ruler of Mewar was defeated by Muhammad Ghori in the Second defeated Mohammad Khilji and erected the tower Battle of Tarain of victory in Chittor?
3. The Second Battle of Tarain laid the foundation a) Rana Kumbha of Turkish rule in North India b) Rana Hamir a) Only 1 c) Rana Bhagwant Das b) Both 1 and 2 d) Rana Sanga c) Both 1 and 3 13) Which among the following chola ruler built the d) All are correct Brihadeshwar temple attributed to Lord Shiva at Tanjore? 10) Who among the following was the last ruler of Chauhan dynasty to sit on the throne of Delhi? a) Rajendra I
a) Hammir Dev Chauhan b) Rajaraja
b) Rana Pratap Singh c) Aditya I
c) Rana Sanga d) Rajendra III
d) Prithviraj Chauhan 14) Which among the following ruler of the chola dynasty built the Solesvara temple of Narttamalai, 11) Who was the last Rajputa King to be defeated Pudukkottai? and killed by Mohammad Ghori in the Battle of Chandawar? a) Rajendra I
a) Raj Man Singh b) Rajaraja
b) Maharana Pratap c) Aditya I
c) Rana Kumbha d) Vijayalaya
d) Jai Chand Gadhawal 15) Virasoliyam, famous work on Tamil grammar was written by Buddamitra during the reign of………………….?
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a) Kulothunga Chola I c) Mohammad bin Qasim
b) Vikrama Chola d) Ruknuddin
c) Virarajendra Chola 19) Which among the following sultanate ruler died in 1210 while playing Chaugan? d) Athirajendra Chola a) Mohammad bin Qasim 16) Which among the following chola ruler assumed the title of Gangaikondachola and built a city called b) Ruknuddin Gangaikondacholapuram? c) Shamsuddin Iltutmish a) Rajendra I d) Qutubuddin Aibak b) Rajaraja 20) Who among the following was a very capable c) Aditya I ruler and regarded as the ‘real founder of the Delhi sultanate’? d) Vijayalaya a) Shamsuddin Iltutmish 17) Who among the following is credited with laying the foundation of Muslim rule in the Indian b) Ruknuddin subcontinent? c) Bahram Shah a) Mohammad bin Qasim d) Nasiruddin Mahamud b) Mohammad Ghori 21) Tanka and Jital, coins introduced by c) Shamsuddin Iltutmish Shamsuddin Iltutmish were made up of which of the following metals respectively? d) Qutubuddin Aibak a) Silver and Gold 18) Who among the following became the master of Hindustan and founded slave dynasty after the b) Silver and Bronze death of Mohammad Ghori? c) Silver and Copper a) Shamsuddin Iltutmish d) Copper and Iron b) Qutubuddin Aibak
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22) Which among the following ruler of the Delhi b) Nasiruddin Mahamud sultanate was given the title of Sultan-e-Aazam? c) Ghiyasuddin Balban a) Shamsuddin Iltutmish d) Bahram Shah b) Ruknuddin 26) Who among the following was the third son of c) Bahram Shah Iltutmish who was put on the throne by the powerful Turkish council ‘Chalisa’? d) Nasiruddin Mahamud a) Nasiruddin Mahamud 23) Chahalgani, an official nobility of slaves set up by Shamsuddin Iltutmish was a group b) Ghiyasuddin Balban of…………….? c) Kaiqubad a) 40 d) Bahram Shah b) 50 27) Which of the following son of Iltutmish was c) 65 known as ‘Darvesi king’ because he was very pious and noble? d) 55 a) Nasiruddin Mahamud 24) Who among the following was the fourth sultan of Delhi sultanate who was crowned by her mother b) Ghiyasuddin Balban after the death of Iltutmish? c) Kaiqubad a) Ruknuddin d) Bahram Shah b) Masud Shah 28) Who among the following introduced Sijda c) Bahram Shah (prostration before the monarch) and Paibos (Kissing the feet of monarch) as the normal forms d) Ghiyasuddin Balban of salutation?
25) Who among the following was proclaimed as the a) Nasiruddin Mahamud Sultan of Delhi after Razia Sultan was away from Delhi to crush the revolt? b) Ghiyasuddin Balban
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d) Bahram Shah 32) Which among the following was the special post created by Alauddin Khilji for the purpose of 29) Which of the following ruler of the Delhi collection of revenue? Sultanate took up the title of ‘Zil-i-Ilahi’ (Shadow of God)? a) Shahna
a) Ghiyasuddin Balban b) Diwan-i-Riyasat
b) Kaiqubad c) Mustakharaj
c) Bahram Shah d) Shahna-i-Mandi
d) Ruknuddin 33) Alai Darwaja, the entrance gate of Qutub Minar was built by which of the following ruler in 1311 30) Who among the following was the first Turkish A.D? sultan of Delhi who separated religion from politics and proclaimed ‘Kingship knows no Kinship’? a) Jalaluddin Khilji
a) Jalaluddin Khilji b) Alauddin Khilji
b) Alauddin Khilji c) Khusrau Khan
c) Khusrau Khan d) Mubarak Khan
d) Mubarak Khan 34) Which of the following book written by Amir Khusrau records Ala-ud-Din's construction works, 31) Which among the following ruler of the Khilji wars and administrative services? Dynasty introduced the system of Dagh (the branding of horse) and Chehra (descriptive roll of a) Khaza'in ul-Futuh soldiers)? b) Aina-e-Sikandari a) Alauddin Khilji c) Miftah ul-Futuh b) Jalaluddin Khilji d) Ghurrat ul-Kamaal c) Mubarak Khan 35) Which among the following ruler of the Delhi d) Khusrau Khan Sultanate was murdered by his slave general Khusrau Khan?
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a) Jalaluddin Khilji d) Abu Bakr Shah
b) Alauddin Khilji 39) Diwan-i-Kohi, a new department of agriculture was created by the ruler of which of the following c) Masud Shah dynasty?
d) Mubarak Khan a) Tughlaq dynasty
36) Who among the following was the last king of b) Khilji dynasty Khilji dynasty who was killed by Ghazi Malik? c) Sayyid dynasty a) Jalaluddin Khilji d) Lodhi dynasty b) Alauddin Khilji 40) Which of the following ruler of the Delhi c) Khusrau Khan sultanate made Iqtadari system hereditary?
d) Mubarak Khan a) Firoz Shah Tughlaq
37) Which of the following ruler of the Tughlaq b) Mohammad-bin Tughlaq dynasty took the most controversial step of transferring the capital from Delhi to Devagiri? c) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
a) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq d) Abu Bakr Shah
b) Firoz Shah Tughlaq 41) Which of the following ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty was a great builder and the cities of c) Mohammad-bin Tughlaq Fatehabad, Hisar, Jaunpur and Firozabad stands to d) Nusrat Shah his credit?
38) Which among the following sultanate ruler died a) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq in Thatta while campaigning in Sindh against b) Firoz Shah Tughlaq Taghi, a Turkish slave? c) Mohammad-bin Tughlaq a) Firoz Shah Tughlaq d) Nusrat Shah b) Mohammad-bin Tughlaq
c) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
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42) Diwan-i-Khairat, a new department was set up b) 1420 to make provisions for the marriage of poor girls c) 1433 during the reign of……………….?
a) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq d) 1421
b) Firoz Shah Tughlaq 46) Who among the following was the nephew of Mubarak Shah who acceded to the throne with the c) Mohammad-bin Tughlaq help of Sarwar ul Mulk?
d) Nusrat Shah a) Alam Shah
43) Amir Timur, a Turkish chief and cruel b) Muhammad Shah conqueror from Mongolia invaded India in 1398 c) Nusrat Shah during the reign of………………..?
a) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq d) Feroz Shah
b) Firoz Shah Tughlaq 47) Who among the following was one of the Afghan Sardars and the founder of the Lodhi Dynasty? c) Mohammad-bin Tughlaq a) Sikandar lodhi d) Muhammad Shah Tughlaq b) Ibrahim lodhi 44) Who among the following captured Delhi on 28 c) Bahlol lodhi May 1414 thereby establishing the Sayyid dynasty?
a) Mubarak Shah d) Alauddin Hussain lodhi
b) Khizr Khan 48) Who among the following captured Delhi on 28 May 1414 thereby establishing the Sayyid dynasty? c) Muhammad Shah
d) Alam Shah a) Sikandar lodhi 45) Mubarak Shah, who was a man of great vision b) Ibrahim lodhi came to the throne in which year?
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49) Which among the following Lodhi ruler 1. Tabaqat-i-Nasiri- Minhaj-us-Siraj introduced Gaz-i-Sikandari for measuring the cultivated fields? 2. Tughlaq-Nama- Ziauddin Barani
a) Bahlol lodhi 3. Kitab-ul-Rehla- Ibn Battutah
b) Alauddin Hussain lodhi a) Only 1
c) Sikandar lodhi b) Only 3
d) Ibrahim lodhi c) Both 1 and 2 d) Both 1 and 3 50) Which Sultan of Delhi Sultanate broke the sacred images of the Jwalamukhi Temple at Naga 53) With respect to Vijayanagar Empire, which of Kot and ordered the temples of Mathura to be the following combination of dynasty and their destroyed? founders is wrongly matched?
a) Sikandar lodhi 1. Sangama Dynasty- Harihar and Bukka
b) Ibrahim lodhi 2. Tuluva Dynasty- Veer Narsimha
c) Bahlol lodhi 3. Saluva Dynasty- Tirumala
d) Alauddin Hussain lodhi a) Only 1
51) Who among the following was the last Lodi b) Only 3 Sultan of Delhi who was defeated in the First Battle of Panipat in 1526? c) Both 1 and 2
a) Ibrahim lodhi d) Both 2 and 3
b) Bahlol lodhi 54) Nicolo de Conti, an Italian merchant and explorer visited Vijayanagar during the reign c) Alauddin Hussain lodhi of…………………….?
d) Sikandar lodhi a) Bukka I
52) With respect to the literature of the Delhi b) Harihar II Sultanate, which of the following combination of books and their authors is matched correctly? c) Deva Raya I Page 9 of 28
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d) Deva Raya II 58) Who among the following founded the Bahmani Kingdom with its capital at Gulbarga? 55) Who among the following became the king of the Taluva Dynasty after the assassination of a) Alauddin Bahman Shah Immadi Narsimha, the last Saluva ruler? b) Ahmad Shah Wali a) Abdur Razzak c) Tajuddin Firoz Shah b) Saluva Narsimha d) Ibrahim Adil Shah c) Tirumal 59) Gol Gumbaj, which is famous for the so-called d) Vira Narsimha ‘Whispering Gallery’ was built by which ruler of the Bahmani kingdom? 56) Which of the following ruler of the Vijayanagar Empire maintained friendly relations with a) Ahmad Shah Wali Albuquerque, the Portuguese governor? b) Tajuddin Firoz Shah a) Harihar II c) Ibrahim Adil Shah b) Deva Raya II d) Muhammad Adil Shah c) Krishna Deva Raya 60) Muhammad Quli Qutub Shah, who was the d) Vira Narsimha greatest ruler of the Qutub Shahi dynasty founded the city of…………….? 57) Caesar Frederick, a Portuguese traveller visited Vijayanagar in 1567-68 during the reign of a) Hyderabad ……………………..? b) Jaunpur a) Deva Raya II c) Agra b) Krishna Deva Raya d) Ahmadabad c) Venkata I 61) Who among the following was the first Bhakti d) Sadashiva Raya saint of North India who opened the doors of Bhakti without distinction of birth, caste, creed or sex?
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b) Chaitanya c) Humayun
c) Ramananda d) Akbar
d) Purandar Das 65) Tuzuk-i-Baburi, is an autobiography of which Mughal emperor in which he gives an excellent 62) Who among the following is the foremost and account of India and his empire? most prolific Vaishnava saint-composer who laid the foundation of modern phase of Karanataka a) Babur music? b) Sher Shah a) Purandar das c) Humayun b) Vallabhacharya d) Akbar c) Shankara deva 66) Which one of the following Mughal emperor d) Dadu Dayal was the first to use gunpowder and artillery in India? 63) Who among the following was a great saint scholar from Maharashtra who wrote a a) Sher Shah commentary on Ramayana called the ‘Bhavartha b) Babur Ramayana’?
a) Jnanesvara c) Humayun
b) Eknath d) Akbar
c) Namadeva 67) Which of the following ruler of the Mughal Empire died while climbing down the stairs of his d) Tukaram library in the year 1556?
64) Who among the following defeated Ibrahim a) Sher Shah Lodhi in the first Battle of Panipat and established b) Babur the Mughal Dynasty in India?
a) Babur c) Humayun
b) Sher Shah d) Akbar
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68) Who among the following defeated Humayun in a) 1540 the Battle of Chausa in the year 1539? b) 1555 a) Muhammad Adil Shah c) 1556 b) Islam Shah d) 1560 c) Akbar 72) Battle of Haldighati was fought between Rana d) Sher Shah Pratap of Mewar and the Mughal army led by Man Singh in …………………………..? 69) Who among the following issued a coin called Rupia and fixed standard weights and measures all a) 1576 over the empire? b) 1580 a) Akbar c) 1582 b) Sher Shah d) 1577 c) Muhammad Adil Shah 73) Which of the following ruler of the Mughal d) Islam Shah Period proclaimed a new religion, Din-i-Ilahi in the year 1581? 70) Which among the following ruler build the famous Grand Trunk Road that runs from Calcutta a) Akbar to Peshawar? b) Sher Shah a) Sher Shah c) Muhammad Adil Shah b) Babur d) Islam Shah c) Humayun 74) Which among the following ruler is considered d) Akbar as the ‘real founder of the Mughal Empire’ in India? 71) Second Battle of Panipat was fought between Hemu (The Hindu general of Muhammad Adil a) Sher Shah Shah) and Bairam Khan (the regent of Akbar) in b) Akbar which year?
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c) Humayun 78) Which of the following Mughal emperor captured Guru Teg Bahadur, the 9th guru of Sikhs d) Jahangir in the year 1675?
75) Who among the following was the son of Akbar a) Aurangzeb who established Zanjir-i-Adal at Agra fort for the seekers of royal justice? b) Humayun
a) Akbar c) Jahangir
b) Humayun d) Babur
c) Jahangir 79) Padshah nama written by Abdul Hamid Lahori, gives a detailed account of which of the following d) Babur Mughal king?
76) Captain William Hawkins, a representative of a) Aurangzeb East India Company came to Jahangir’s court in which year? b) Humayun
a) 1605 c) Jahangir
b) 1607 d) Shahjahan
c) 1610 80) Which one of the following Mughal emperor was referred as Zinda Pir, the living saint? d) 1608 a) Aurangzeb 77) Who among the following is the son of Jahangir who ascended the throne after his father’s death in b) Humayun 1628? c) Jahangir a) Shahjahan d) Babur b) Aurangzeb 81) Which of the following monument was built by c) Shah Alam Akbar in the memory of his victory in Gujarat?
d) Bahadur Shah a) Red Fort
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b) Jama Masjid a) Only 2
c) Buland Darwaza b) Only 3
d) Taj Mahal c) Both 1 and 2
82) Nurjahan built which one of the following d) Both 2 and 3 monument which is noticeable for the first use of pietra dura technique? 85) Which among the following ruler of the Maratha state assumed the title of Haindava a) Salim Chisti’s tomb Dharmodharak (Protector of Hinduism)?
b) Mirza Ghiyas Beg’s marble tomb a) Sambhaji
c) Khaas Mahal b) Rajaram
d) Mussmman Burz c) Shivaji
83) Jizya, a tax which was levied on non Muslims, d) Balaji Vishwanath was abolished by Emperor Akbar in which of the following year? 86) Who among the following was the elder son of Shivaji who defeated Rajaram, younger son of a) 1564 Shivaji in the war of succession?
b) 1555 a) Shahu
c) 1562 b) Balaji Vishwanath
d) 1577 c) Baji Rao I
84) With reference to literature of Mughal Period, d) Sambhaji which of the following combination of books and their authors is matched correctly? 87) Which among the following Maratha emperor created the new post of Pratinidhi, thus taking the 1. Akbar Nama- Abul Fazl total number of ministers to nine?
2. Tuzuk-i-Baburi- Babur a) Rajaram I
3. Ain-i-Akbari- Abdul Haq b) Shivaji
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c) Baji Rao I 91) Who among the following is popularly known as Nana Saheb, who succeeded his father at the age of d) Sambhaji 20?
88) Who among the following was given the title of a) Baji Rao II Sena Karte (marker of the army) by Shahu in 1708? b) Madhav Rao a) Balaji Baji Rao c) Sawai Madhav Rao b) Balaji Vishwanath d) Balaji Baji Rao c) Baji Rao I 92) Which of the following war took place in north d) Sambhaji India and marked the beginning of the Mughal 89) Who among the following was the eldest son of Empire and the end of the Delhi Sultanate? Balaji Vishwanath who succeeded him as Peshwa at a) First Anglo-Mysore War the young age of 20? b) First Battle of Panipat a) Balaji Baji Rao c) Battle of Kalinga b) Madhav Rao d) Battle of Chhandwar c) Baji Rao I 93) The Battle of Kanauj in which Humayun d) Narayan Rao became a fugitive and Sher Khan became the 90) Which one of the following Maratha ruler said master of Agra and Delhi was fought this statement for the Mughals-‘Let us strike at the in…………………? trunk of the withering tree and the branches will a) May, 1540 fall of themselves’? b) June, 1567 a) Balaji Baji Rao c) March, 1678 b) Madhav Rao d) August, 1545 c) Baji Rao I 94) Babur declared Jihad and assumed the title of d) Narayan Rao Ghazi in India during which one of the following battle? Page 15 of 28
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a) Battle of Khanwa 97) Which among the following was the most important post in Shivaji’s council? b) Battle of Talikota a) Dabir c) Battle of Buxar b) Peshwa d) Battle of Plassey c) Majumdar 95) Which among the following was the final and decisive conflict between the British East India d) Nyayadish Company (EIC) and the Maratha Empire in India? 98) Hauz Khas, one of the most elegant structures in a) First Anglo Maratha War the architectural history of Delhi was built by………………..? b) Second Anglo Maratha War a) Humayun c) Third Anglo Maratha War b) Akbar d) None of these c) Feroz Shah Tughlaq 96) Which one of the following statements is not true regarding Battle of Plassey? d) Alauddin Khilji
1. The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the British East India Company over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies. 99) Which treaty was signed between EIC and Tipu Sultan to end the 2nd Anglo-Mysore War? 2. It was fought on 22 June, 1750 under the a) Treaty of Madras leadership of Robert Clive. b) Treaty of Mangalore 3. The battle took place at Palashi on the banks of the Hooghly River. c) Treaty of Mysore
a) Only 1 d) Treaty of Meghalaya
b) Only 2 100) Who among the following was the architect of c) Both 1 and 2 the Humayun’s Tomb?
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b) Ustad Ahmad Khan d) Yaqut-al-Hamawi
c) George Wittet
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1. Answer: a) adopted the title of Adivaraha which is inscribed on some of his coins. The Pala Empire was an imperial power during the Late Classical period on the Indian subcontinent, which 5. Answer: d) originated in the region of Bengal (modern-day Bangladesh and West Bengal).The Empire was All the above statements are true except b). The founded with the election of Gopala as the emperor of Rashtrakutas had Kannada origin and their mother Gauda in 750 CE. tongue was Kannada. The Rashtrakuta dynasty was founded by Dantidurga in 8th Century AD. He was 2. Answer: c) instrumental in establishing Rashtrakutas as a paramount power in the Deccan. The early kings of this Dharmapala was the second ruler of the Pala Empire of dynasty were influenced by Hinduism and the later Bengal region in the Indian Subcontinent. He was the kings by Jainism. son and successor of Gopala, the founder of the Pala Dynasty. Dharmapala was a great patron of Buddhism. 6. Answer: c) He revived the Nalanda University and founded the Vikramshila University which later evolved into a Kavirajamarga is the earliest available work on great learning centre of Buddhism. rhetoric, poetics and grammar in the Kannada language. It was inspired by or written in part by the 3. Answer: b) famous Rashtrakuta King Amoghvarsha I. Kavirajamarga makes important references not only to The earliest well-known king of this dynasty was earlier Kannada writers and poets but also to early Nagabhatta I. However, the real founder and the literary styles that were in vogue in the various written greatest ruler of the Pratihara dynasty was Bhoja. He dialects of Kannada language. The aim of this writing became successful in consolidating the empire. was to standardize these written styles. 4. Answer: b) 7. Answer: a) Mihira Bhoja or Bhoja I was a ruler of the Gurjara- The Kailash Temple is the sixteenth cave, and it is one Pratihara dynasty of India. He succeeded his father of the 32 cave temples and monasteries forming the Ramabhadra. Bhoja was a devotee of Vishnu and magnanimous Ellora Caves. Rashtrakuta king, krishna-
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1 had built the kailash temple of ellora. It is considered The Battle of Chandawar was fought between as the wonder of rock-out architecture. Muhammad Ghori and Jaichand of Kannauj of the Gahadavala dynasty. It took place at Chandawar on the 8. Answer: b) Yamuna River close to Agra. Jaichand was defeated, The First Battle of Tarain took place in 1191 CE. The giving Muhammad control of much of northern India. battle was fought between the Indian ruler Prithviraj 12. Answer: a) Chauhan on one hand and Muhammad Ghori on the other hand. Prithviraj Chauhan was defeated by Rana Kumbha, was the ruler of Mewar kingdom of Muhammad Ghori in the First Battle of Tarain. western India. He belonged to the Sisodia clan of Rajputs. Kumbha was a son of Rana Mokal Singh of 9. Answer: d) Mewar by his wife, Sobhagya Devi. He defeated The Second Battle of Tarain took place in the year Mohammad Khilji and erected the tower of victory in 1192 CE. Prithviraj Chauhan, the Rajput ruler of India Chittor. was defeated by Muhammad Ghori in the Second 13. Answer: b) Battle of Tarain. The Second Battle of Tarain laid the foundation of Turkish rule in North India. This battle Brihadishvara Temple, also called Rajarajesvaram or dealt a severe blow to the Rajput rulers of India. Peruvudaiyar Kovil, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Within next ten years of this battle, the power of the Shiva located in South bank of Kaveri River in Rajputs collapsed and Turkish rule was established in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India. Built by Tamil king India. The Turks ruled the country for about next three Raja Raja Chola I between 1003 and 1010 AD, the hundred years. temple is a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the "Great Living Chola Temples". 10. Answer: d) 14. Answer: d) Prithviraj Chauhan, the last ruler of Chauhan dynasty to sit on the throne of Delhi, was born in 1168 as the Vijayalaya was the founder of the Imperial Chola son of Someshwar Chauhan, the king of Ajmer. When dynasty which was the beginning of one of the most he ascended to the throne of Delhi, he built Qila Rai splendid empires in Indian history. He built the Pithora here. His whole life was a continuous chain of Solesvara temple of Narttamalai, Pudukkottai. bravery, courage, chivalrous deeds and glorious exploits. 15 Answer: c)
11. Answer: d) Virasoliyam is a famous work on Tamil grammar which was written by Buddhamitra during the reign of the Virarajendra Chola. Page 18 of 28
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16. Answer: a) rule from Delhi, and is thus considered the effective founder of Delhi Sultanate. Rajendra Chola I was one of the most successful monarchs of the South Indian Chola Empire. He 21. Answer: c) assumed the title of Gangaikondachola and built a city called Gangaikondacholapuram. Iltutmish introduced Silver Tanka and Copper Jital, the two coins of the Delhi Sultanate. The coins prior to 17. Answer: b) Iltutmish were introduced by the invaders which bear the Sanskrit characters and even Bull and Shivalinga. Muhammad Ghori also known as Muhammad of Ghor, Iltutmish was the first to introduce a “Pure Arabic was the Sultan of the Ghurid Empire along with his Coin” in India. brother Ghiyath ad-Din Muhammad from 1173 to 1202 and as the sole ruler from 1202 to 1206. He is credited 22. Answer: a) with laying the foundation of Muslim rule in the Indian subcontinent, which lasted for several centuries. Shams ud-Din Iltutmish, was the third of the Mamluk kings who ruled the former Ghurid territories in 18. Answer: b) northern India. He was the first Muslim sovereign to rule from Delhi, and is thus considered the effective Qutb al-Din Aibak was a general of the Ghurid founder of Delhi Sultanate. He was given the title of emperor Muhammad Ghori. He was in-charge of the Sultan-e-Aazam. Ghurid territories in northern India, and after Muhammad Ghori’s death, he became the ruler of an 23. Answer: a) independent kingdom that evolved into the Delhi Sultanate ruled by the Mamluk dynasty. Chahalgani was the system of nobles introduced by Iltutmish in India during Mamluk rule in India. It was a 19. Answer: d) corp of 40 loyal slaves Amirs also known as Turkan-i- Chihalgani. Qutb-ud-din Aibak, who was a general at Muhammad Ghori's Delhi Sultanate, died as a result of a fall from 24. Answer: a) his horse while playing Chaugan in 1210. Ruknud din Firuz was the fourth Sultan of the Delhi 20. Answer: a) Sultanate, Mamluk Dynasty. He ruled for a little over six months, which is said to be a very short reign Shams ud-Din Iltutmish, was the third of the Mamluk compared to other rulers. He became the fourth sultan kings who ruled the former Ghurid territories in of Delhi sultanate who was crowned by her mother northern India. He was the first Muslim sovereign to after the death of Iltutmish.
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25. Answer: d) wazir of the last Shamsi sultan, Nasir ud-Din. He was given the title of ‘Zil-i-Ilahi’ (Shadow of God). Muiz ud-Din Bahram was the sixth sultan of the Mamluk Dynasty. He was the son of Shams ud din 30. Answer: b) Iltutmish and the half-brother of Razia Sultan. He was proclaimed as the Sultan of Delhi after Razia Sultan ʿAla- ud-Din Khalji was the second and the most was away from Delhi to crush the revolt. powerful ruler of the Khalji dynasty that ruled the Delhi Sultanate in the Indian subcontinent. Alauddin 26. Answer: d) instituted a number of significant administrative changes, related to revenues, price controls, and Muiz ud-Din Bahram was the sixth sultan of the society. He was the first Turkish sultan of Delhi who Mamluk Dynasty. He was the son of Shams ud din separated religion from politics and proclaimed Iltutmish and the half-brother of Razia Sultan. He was ‘Kingship knows no Kinship’. the third son of Iltutmish who was put on the throne by powerful Turkish council ‘Chalisa’. 31. Answer: a)
27. Answer: a) Dagh and Chehra were the 2 reforms in the army which were introduced by ala-ud-din khalji. Dagh were the Nasiruddin Mahmud was the posthumous child of the horses to prevent substitution from the good horses by eldest son of Iltutmish named Shahzada Nasiruddin. He the inferior ones and chehra were a full description for was known as the Darvesi King as he was very pious each soldier. and noble. He died in 1266. 32. Answer: c) 28. Answer: b) Diwan-i-mustakharaj (to realise arrears) was created by Ghiyas-ud-din Balban who ruled India as the Sultan of Alauddin Khiiji. It was a special post created for the Delhi from 1266 to 1287 A.D. was one of the greatest purpose of collection of revenue. Sultans of the medieval period. Balban also introduced the practice of Sijda (Prostration) and Paibos (kissing 33. Answer: b) the monarch's feet) in the court as normal forms of salutation to the king. The Alai Darwaza is the main gate from the southern side of the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque in the Qutub 29. Answer: a) Minar complex. Built by Allaudin Khilji the Sultan of Delhi in 1311 AD, the Alai Darwaza has a domed Ghiyas ud din Balban; was the ninth sultan of the entrance which is constructed using red sandstone and Mamluk dynasty of Delhi. Ghiyas ud Din was the is adorned with white marble.
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34. Answer: a) 39. Answer: a)
Ab'ul Hasan Yamin ud-Din Khusrau (1253 – 1325), Muhammad Bin Tughlaq created a department of better known as Amir Khusrow Dehlavi. Khusrow agriculture known as Diwan-i-Kohi. The main wrote the Khaza'in ul-Futuh (The Treasures of Victory) objective of the department was to increase the land recording Ala ud-Din's construction works, wars and under cultivation. administrative services. 40. Answer: a) 35. Answer: d) Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq was a Turkic Muslim ruler Qutb-ud-din Mubarak Shah Khalji was a ruler of the of the Tughlaq Dynasty, who reigned over the Delhi Sultanate. Mubarak Shah, also called Mubarak Sultanate of Delhi from 1351 to 1388. He made Khan, was a son of Alauddin Khalji. He was murdered Iqtadari system hereditary. by his slave general Khusrau Khan. 41. Answer: b) 36. Answer: c) Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq was a Turkic Muslim ruler Khusro Khan was a medieval Indian military leader of the Tughlaq Dynasty, who reigned over the and ruler of Delhi as Sultan Nasiruddin Khusrau Shah Sultanate of Delhi from 1351 to 1388. He was a great for a short period of time. He was the last king of builder and the cities of Fatehabad, Hisar, Jaunpur and Khilji dynasty who was killed by Ghazi Malik. Firozabad stands to his credit
37. Answer: c) 42. Answer: b)
Mohammad bin Tughluq was the Sultan of Delhi from Diwan-i-Khairat (charity department) was created by 1325 to 1351. He was the eldest son of Ghiyas -ud -Din Firuz shah Tughluq. It was set up to make provisions -Tughlaq, the Turko-Indian founder of the Tughluq for the marriage of poor girls dynasty. He took the most controversial step of transferring the capital from Delhi to Devagiri? 43. Answer: d) Timur was a Turco-Mongol conqueror, the founder of 38. Answer: b) the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia, and the Mohammad bin Tughluq was the Sultan of Delhi from first ruler in the Timurid dynasty. He was a Turkish 1325 to 1351. He was the eldest son of Ghiyas -ud -Din chief and cruel conqueror from Mongolia who invaded -Tughlaq, the Turko-Indian founder of the Tughluq India in 1398 during the reign of Muhammad Shah dynasty. He died in Thatta while campaigning in Sindh Tughlaq. against Taghi, a Turkish slave. 44. Answer: b) Page 21 of 28
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Following the 1398 Sack of Delhi, Amir Timur Bahlul Lodi in July 1489. He founded Agra in 1504 appointed the Sayyids as the governors of Delhi. Their and built mosques. dynasty was established by Sayyid Khizr Khan, deputised by Timur to be the governor of Multan 49. Answer: c) (Punjab). Khizr Khan captured Delhi on 28 May 1414 Sikandar Lodi, born Nizam Khan, was the Sultan of thereby establishing the Sayyid dynasty. Delhi between 1489 and 1517. He became the next ruler of the Lodi dynasty after the death of his father 45. Answer: d) Bahlul Lodi in July 1489. He introduced Gaz-i- Qutb-ud-din Mubarak Shah Khalji was a ruler of the Sikandari for measuring the cultivated lands. Delhi Sultanate of present-day India. A member of the Khalji dynasty, he was a son of Alauddin Khalji. He 50. Answer: a) came to throne in the year 1421. Sikandar lodhi was a fanatical Muslim and he broke 46. Answer: b) the sacred images of the Jwalamukhi temple at Naga Kot and ordered the temples of Mathura to be Muhammad Shah was a nephew of Mubarak Shah. He destroyed. ruled from 1434-1443. Muhammad Shah acceded to the throne with the help of Sarwar ul Mulk. After that 51. Answer: a) Shah wanted to free himself from the domination of Babur defeated and killed Ibrahim Lodi in the Battle of Sarwar ul Mulk with the help of his faithful vizier Panipat in 1526 who was the last Lodi sultan of Delhi. Kamal ul Mulk. The death of Ibrahim Lodi ended the Delhi Sultanate, and the Mughal Empire replaced it. 47. Answer: c)
Bahlol Khan Lodi was the chief of the Pashtun Lodi tribe. Founder of the Lodi dynasty from the Delhi 52. Answer: d) Sultanate upon the abdication of the last claimant from the previous Sayyid rule. Bahlol became sultan of the Tabaqat-i-Nasiri- Minhaj-us-Siraj dynasty on 19 April 1451. Tughlaq-Nama- Amir Khusrau 48. Answer: a) Kitab-ul-Rehla- Ibn Battutah Sikandar Lodi, born Nizam Khan, was the Sultan of 53. Answer: b) Delhi between 1489 and 1517. He became the next ruler of the Lodi dynasty after the death of his father Sangama Dynasty- Harihar and Bukka
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Tuluva Dynasty- Veer Narsimha The founder of the Bahmani kingdom was Alauddin Bahman Shah also known as Hasan Gangu in 1347. Saluva Dynasty- Saluva Narsimha Thus, he founded the Bahmani kingdom with its capital 54. Answer: c) at Gulbarga.
An Italian traveller, Nicolo Conti (1420-1421 AD) 59. Answer: d) visited Vijayanagar Empire during the reign of The Gol Gumbaj, the tomb with world's second largest Devaraya-I (the Tuluva dynasty ruler). He gave a dome was built by Adil Shahi ruler Muhammad Adil comprehensive account of the Hindu kingdom of Shah. It is also famous for its whispering gallery. This Vijayanagar. kingdom was later annexed by Aurangzeb.
55. Answer: d) 60. Answer: a)
Vira Narasimha Raya became the king of Vijayanagar Hyderabad was founded on the River Musi five miles Empire after the assassination of Immadi Narsimha, the east of Golconda, the capital of the Qutub Shahi rulers last Saluva ruler. in 1591-92 by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah. The Qutb 56. Answer: c) Shahi dynasty founded the Kingdom of Golconda, one of the five kingdoms that emerged after the breakup of Krishna Deva Raya maintained friendly relations with the Bahamani Kingdom. Albuquerque, the Portuguese governor whose ambassador Friar Luis resided at Vijayanagar. His 61. Answer: c) relations with Portuguese were governed by two Ramananda was a 14th-century Vaishnava devotional factors: poet saint, in the Ganges river region of northern India. (a) Common enemity with Bijapur The Hindu tradition recognizes him as the founder of the Ramanandi Sampradaya, the largest monastic (b) The supply of imported horses by the Portuguese to Hindu renunciant community in modern times. Vijayanagar. 62. Answer: a) 57. Answer: d) Purandara Dasa was a Haridasa, a great devotee of Caesaro Federici, an Italian traveller or "Caesar Lord Krishna and a saint. He is the foremost and most Frederick," visited the India in 1567 during the reign of prolific Vaishnava saint-composer who laid the Sasashiva Raya. foundation of modern phase of Karanataka music.
58. Answer: a) 63. Answer: b)
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Eknath was a prominent Marathi saint, scholar and 68. Answer: d) religious poet of the Varkari sampradaya. In the development of Marathi literature, Eknath is seen as a The Battle of Chausa (25 June 1539) took place bridge between his predecessors—Dnyaneshwar and between Mughal Emperor Humayun and Sher Shah Namdev—and the later Tukaram and Ramdas. He Suri (Sher Khan). At the Battle of Chausa, he defeated wrote a commentary on Ramayana called the the Mughal emperor Humayun and assumed the royal ‘Bhavartha Ramayana’. title of Farid al-Din Sher Shah.
64. Answer: a) 69. Answer: b)
The First Battle of Panipat, on 21 April 1526, was Sher Shah Suri, born Farid Khan, was the founder of fought between the invading forces of Babur and the the Suri Empire in the northern part of the Indian Lodi Kingdom. It took place in north India and marked subcontinent, with its capital in Sasaram in modern-day the beginning of the Mughal Empire and the end of the Bihar. An ethnic Pashtun, Sher Shah took control of Delhi Sultanate. the Mughal Empire in 1538. He issued a coin called Rupia and fixed standard weights and measures all 65. Answer: a) over the empire.
Tuzuk-i-Baburi (Baburanamah) is the autobiography of 70. Answer: a) Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire in India. The Tuzuk-i-Baburi is a The Grand Trunk Road, built by Sher Shah Suri, a ruler faithful description of the world the author had lived in, of the Indian sub continent in the 16th century AD, and of the people he had come into contact. starts in Kabul, Afghanistan. The road continues to Pakistan near Peshawar through the famous Khyber 66. Answer: b) Pass.
Babur, born Zahir ud-Din Muhammad, was the founder 71. Answer: c) and first Emperor of the Mughal dynasty in South Asia. He was a direct descendant of Emperor Timur from The Second Battle of Panipat was fought between the what is now Uzbekistan. He was the first to use forces of Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, gunpowder and artillery in India. popularly called Hemu, the Hindu king who was ruling North India from Delhi, and the army of Akbar, on 67. Answer: c) November 5, 1556. It was a decisive victory for Akbar's generals Khan Zaman I and Bairam Khan. Humayun, the father of Akbar, died on 26 January 1556 in Delhi in a fatal accident while climbing down 72. Answer: a) the stairs of Din-I-Pannah library. Page 24 of 28
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The Battle of Haldighati was a battle fought on 18 June at Surat in India on 24 August 1608. Hawkins travelled 1576 between cavalry and archers supporting the Rana to Agra to negotiate consent for a factory from of Mewar, Maharana Pratap, and the Mughal emperor Emperor Jahangir in 1609. Akbar's forces, led by Man Singh I of Amber. 77. Answer: a) 73. Answer: a) Shahab-ud-din Muhammad Khurram, better known by Din-i Ilahi “the religion of God,” was a system of his regnal name Shah Jahan, was the fifth Mughal religious beliefs introduced by the Mughal emperor emperor, who reigned from 1628 to 1658. He was the Akbar in 1582 CE. His idea was to combine Islam and son of Jahangir who ascended the throne after his death Hinduism into one faith, but also to add aspects of in the year 1628. Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Jainism. Akbar took a deep personal interest in religious matters. 78. Answer: a)
74. Answer: b) The ninth of the 10 gurus of the Sikh religion, Guru Tegh Bahadur died on this day, November 24, in the Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar, popularly year 1675. In 1675 Guru Tegh Bahadur was executed known as Akbar the Great, and also as Akbar I, was the in Delhi on 11 November under the orders of the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. He is famously known Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun, under a regent, for the protection he provided to the Sikhs and the Bairam Khan, who helped the young emperor expand Hindus against a 17th century law that forced them to and consolidate Mughal domains in India. He is convert to Islam. considered the real founder of Mughal empire in India. 79. Answer: d) 75. Answer: c) Abdul Hamid Lahori was a traveller and historian Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim, known by his imperial during the period of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan who name Jahangir, was the fourth Mughal Emperor, who later became a court historian of Shah Jahan (Shah ruled from 1605 until his death in 1627. He was the son Jahan's official chronicler). He wrote the book of Akbar who established Zanjir-i-Adal at Agra fort for Padshahnama also called Badshahnama, about the the seekers of royal justice. reign of Shahjahan.
76. Answer: d) 80. Answer: a)
Sir William Hawkins was a representative of the Aurangzeb was called Zinda pir because of the English East India Company notable for being the following reasons: He was a person who fully commander of Hector, the first company ship to anchor Commemorated Quran. He organized Fatwa-Al- Page 25 of 28
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Alamgiri. It was very special because it was for the out an enclave from the declining Adilshahi sultanate first time all the education of Sharia Law were of Bijapur that formed the genesis of the Maratha collected in one book. Empire. Shivaji In 1674 AD, Shivaji Maharaj was coronated at Raigarh (Capital) and assumed the title of 81. Answer: c) Chhatrapati Haindava Dharmodharak (Protector of Buland Darwaza or the "Gate of victory” was built in Hinduism). 1601 A.D. by Mughal emperor Akbar to commemorate 86. Answer: d) his victory over Gujarat. It is the main entrance to the Jama Masjid at Fatehpur Sikri, which is 43 km from Sambhaji Bhonsle was the second ruler of the Maratha Agra, India. kingdom. He was the eldest son of Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha Empire and his first wife Saibai. He 82. Answer: b) was successor of the realm after his father's death, and Nurjahan built Itimad-ud-daulah/Mirza Ghiyas Beg's ruled it for nine years. He defeated Rajaram, younger marble tomb at Agra, which is noticeable for the first son of Shivaji in the war of succession. usage of Pietra Dura technique. 87. Answer: a)
83. Answer: a) The Pratinidhi (the Viceroy) was an important member Jizya was abolished by the third Mughal emperor of the ministry in the Maratha Empire. The title of Akbar, in 1564. It was finally abolished in 1579. Pratinidhi means the representative of the King, and However, Aurangzeb, the sixth emperor, re-introduced such officials were entitled to sign and seal papers and and levied jizya on non-Muslims in 1679. His goal was to issue orders in the absence of the Ruler. Shivaji's to promote Islam and weaken the Hindu religion ministry of the eight - the Ashta Pradhan didn't include a Pratinidhi. Later the post of Pant Pratinidhi was 84. Answer: c) created during the Rajaram I reign and a person holding this office exercised powers over all ministers Akbar Nama- Abul Fazl of the Maratha court including the Peshwas. Tuzuk-i-Baburi- Babur 88. Answer: b) Ain-i-Akbari- Abul Fazl Balaji Vishwanath, better known as Peshwa Balaji 85. Answer: c) Vishwanath, was the 5th Peshwa and the first of a series of hereditary Peshwas hailing from the Bhat Shivaji Bhonsle I was an Indian warrior king and a family who gained effective control of the Maratha member of the Bhonsle Maratha clan. Shivaji carved
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Empire during the 18th century. He was given the title The Battle of Khanwa was fought near the village of of Sena Karte (marker of the army) by Shahu in 1708. Khanwa, in Bharatpur District of Rajasthan, on March 16, 1527. It was fought between the invading forces of 89. Answer: c) the first Mughal Emperor Babur and the Rajput forces Bajirao Peshwa I (AD 1721 to 1740) – He was the led by Rana Sanga of Mewar, after the Battle of eldest son of Balaji Vishwanath; succeeded him as Panipat. Peshwas at the young age of 20. 95. Answer: c)
90. Answer: a) The Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–1818) was the Balaji Baji Rao said the statement ‘-‘Let us strike at the final and decisive conflict between the British East trunk of the withering tree and the branches will fall of India Company (EIC) and the Maratha Empire in India. themselves’. The war left the Company in control of most of India. It began with an invasion of the Maratha territory by 91. Answer: d) British East India Company troops, the largest such British controlled force massed in India. Balaji Baji Rao also known as Nana Saheb was a Peshwa (prime minister) of the Maratha Empire in 96. Answer: b) India. He was appointed as Peshwa in 1740 upon the death of his illustrious father, the Peshwa Bajirao l. The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the British East India Company over the Nawab of Bengal 92. Answer: b) and his French allies on 22 June 1757, under the leadership of Robert Clive. The battle took place at The First Battle of Panipat, on 21 April 1526, was Palashi on the banks of the Hooghly River, about 150 fought between the invading forces of Babur and the kilometres north of Calcutta and south of Murshidabad, Lodi Kingdom. It took place in north India and marked then capital of Bengal (now in Murshidabad district in the beginning of the Mughal Empire and the end of the West Bengal). Delhi Sultanate. 97. Answer: b) 93. Answer: a) The Ashta Pradhan was a council of eight ministers The Battle of Kanauj was fought and lost in May, that administered the Maratha Empire. The council was 1540. Humayun became a fugitive and Sher Khan formed in 1674 by their king, Chatrapati Shivaji became the master of Agra and Delhi. Maharaj. Peshwa was the most important post in 94. Answer: a) Shivaji’s council. 98. Answer: d) Page 27 of 28
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Hauz Khas is an affluent neighbourhood in South 100. Answer: a) Delhi, its heart being the historic Hauz Khas Complex. Well known in medieval times, the Hauz Khas village Humayun’s Tomb was the first garden tomb on the has amazing buildings built around the reservoir. It is Indian Subcontinent. It is the Tomb of Mughal built by Alauddin Khilji. Emperor Humayun and it was commissioned by his wife Hamida Banu Begum in 1562 AD. It was 99. Answer: b) designed by Persian architect Mirak Mirza Ghiyas. The structure inspired several other significant architectural The Treaty of Mangalore was signed between Tipu achievements, including the Taj Mahal. Sultan and the British East India Company on 11 March 1784. It was signed in Mangalore and brought an end to the Second Anglo-Mysore War.
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