1 PTin30 Days DAY - 2: MEDIEVAL INDIA Answer Booklet 1. The Sultan of the Sultanate of Delhi, who Answer: (D) Ras Khan (1558-1628 CE) was transferred his capital form Delhi to Agra, a Hindi poet who was both a Muslim and was: follower of Lord Krishna. a) Khizr khan 5. The Medieval India writer who refers to b) Bahlul Lodi the discovery of America is: c) Sikandar Lodi a) Amir Khusrau d) Minhaj-us-Siraj b) Abul Fazl Answer: (C) It was sultan Sikandar Lodi c) Marco Polo who transferred the capital from Delhi to d) Dara Agra in the year 1506. The city of Agra was Answer: (B) founded by him. He had financed the construction of the beautiful city of Agra in 6. Fawazil in the Sultanate period meant: 1503. a) Extra payment to nobles 2. The Special feature of the financial b) Revenue assigned in lieu of salary system of Vijayanagar was: c) Excess amount to the exchequer by the Iqtadars a) Land Tax d) Illegal exactions extracted from the b) Currency System peasants c) Surplus Revenue d) Revenue from Seaports Answer: (C) Fawazil was balance between the income and expenditure of Iqtadars. Answer: (D) 7. Sultan of Delhi who is reputed to have 3. Nastaliq was: built the biggest canals in India was: a) A Persian script a) Iltutmish b) A Raga b) Firoz Shah Tughlaq c) A cess levied by Mughal rulers c) Sikandar Lodi d) A manual code of conduct of the d) Balban Sufi saints Answer: (B) Answer: (A) It was a Persian script during Mughal period 8. The first writer to use Urdu as medium of poetic expression was: 4. Prem Vatika, poems on the life of Krishna, were composed by: a) Amir Khusrau b) Mirza Ghalib a) Surdas c) Bahadur Shah Zafar b) Kabir d) Tansen c) Mira Bai d) Ras Khan Answer: (A) Amir Khusrau (1253-1325 CE), a Persian poet was associated with the rulers of Delhi Sultanate. He composed DAY – 2: MEDIEVAL INDIA PTin30 Days OBJECTIVE IAS 2 poetry in Arabic and Persian besides being Diwan-i-Mustaqraj (Department of the first writer to use Urdu as a medium of Arrears): Ala-ud-Din Khalji poetic expression. Diwan-i-Kohi (Department of 9. The Sufi saint who maintained that Agriculture): Muhammad-bib-Tughlaq devotional music was one way of coming Diwan-i-Arz (Military Department): close to God was: Balban a) Muin-ud-Din Chisti 13. Which among the following ports was b) Baba Farid called Babul Makka (Gate of Makka) c) Saiyyid Muhammad Gesudaraz during the Mughal period? d) Shah Alam Bukhari a) Calicut Answer: (B) b) Broach 10. Which one of the following pair is not c) Cambay correctly matched? d) Surat a) Jahangir: William Hawkins Answer: (D) b) Sahajahan: Tranernier 14. Historian Barani refused to consider the c) Aurangzeb: Manucci state in India under Delhi Sultans was truly d) None of the above Islamic because: Answer: (D) a) Majority of the population did not 11. Who among the following was the first follow Islam Bhakti saint to use Hindi for the b) Muslim theologists were often propagation of his message? disregarded c) Sultan supplemented the Muslim a) Dadu law by framing his own regulations b) Kabir d) Religious freedom was accorded to c) Ramananda non-Muslims d) Tulsidas Answer: (C) Answer: (C) Ramananda (1360-1470 CE) was the first Bhakti saint to use Hindi for 15. Battle of Dharmat was fought between: the propagation of his message. a) Muhammad Ghori and Jai Chand 12. Which of the following pair is/are b) Babur and Afghans correctly matched? c) Aurangzeb and Dara Shikoh d) Ahmad Shah Durrani and the a) Dewan-i-Bandagani: Feroz Marathas Tughlaq b) Diwan-i-Mustaqraj: Balban Answer: (C) The battle of Dharmat was c) Diwan-i-amir-Kohi: Alaud-din- fought between Aurangzeb and Dara Khalji Shikoh in 1658 for the throne. Dara Shikoh d) All of the above was defeated by Aurangzeb. Answer: (A) Diwan-i-Bandagani 16. When Raja Wodeyar founded the (Department of Slaves): Feroz Shah kingdom of Mysore, who was the ruler of Tughlaq the Vijayanagar Empire? a) Sadasiva DAY – 2: MEDIEVAL INDIA PTin30 Days OBJECTIVE IAS 3 b) Tirumala 20. During the time of which Mughal c) Ranga II emperor did the English East India d) Venkata II company establish its first factory in India? Answer: (D) a) Akbar b) Jahangir 17. Bhakta Tukaram was a contemporary c) Shahjahan of which Mughal emperor? d) Aurangzeb a) Babur Answer: (B) b) Akbar c) Jahangir 21. Where is the famous Virupaksha d) Aurangzeb temple located? Answer: (C) Tukaram (1608-1650) was a a) Bhadracholam Marathi bhakti poet and a devotee of Lord b) Chidambaram Krishna. Time period of Jahangir was c) Hampi (1605-1627). d) Srikalahasthi 18. In Indian history, who was Abdul Answer: (C) Hamid Lahori? 22. With whose permission did the English a) An important military commander set up their factory in Surat? during the Akbar reign a) Akbar b) An official historian of the reign of b) Jahangir Shahjahan c) Shah Jahan c) An important noble and confidant d) Aurangzeb of Aurangzeb d) A chronicler and poet during the Answer: (B) James-I William Hawkins sent reign of Muhammad shah to the court of Jahangir provided the farman which allowed East India Co. to set Answer: (B) Abdul Hamid Lahori (1654) up a factory at Surat in 1613. was a traveller during the period of Shah Jahan who later became a court historian of 23. Ibadat Khana at Fatehpur Sikri was: Shah Jahan. He wrote the book a) The mosque for the use of Royal Padshahnama also referred as Family Badshahnama, about the reign of b) Akbar’s private prayer chamber Shahjahan. c) The hall in which Akbar held 19. Where is the famous Vijaya Vittala discussions with Scholars of temple having its 56 carved pillar emitting various religions musical notes located? d) The room in which the nobles belonging to different religions a) Belur gathered to discuss religious affairs b) Bhadracholam c) Hampi Answer: (C) d) Srirangam Answer: (C) DAY – 2: MEDIEVAL INDIA PTin30 Days OBJECTIVE IAS 4 24. In Medieval India, the designations institutions. Khalisa land: land direct Mahattara and Pattakila were used for: controlled by the Sultans a) Military officers 28. The land was divided into four b) Village headmen categories during reign of Akbar. Which of c) Specialists in Vedic rituals the following was land cultivated once in d) Chiefs of craft guilds two years? Answer: (B) a) Polaj b) Parauti 25. Who of the following founded a new c) Chachar city on the south bank of a tributary to river d) Banjar Krishna and undertook to rule his new kingdom as the agent of a deity to whom Answer: (B) Akbar made some all the land south of the river Krishna was experiments in the land revenue supposed to belong? administration with the help of Raja Todar Mal. The land revenue system of Akbar a) Amoghavarsha I was called Zabti or Bandobast system. It b) Bahhala II was further improved by Raja Todar Mal. c) Harihara I It was known as Dahsala System which d) Prataparudra II was completed in 1580. By this system, Answer: (C) Todar Mal introduced a uniform system of land measurement. This revenue was fixed 26. His enterprises and novel experiments on the average yield of land assessed on the ended in miserable failures because they basis of past ten years. The land was also were all far of their time. This description divided into four categories as follows: is about: • Polaj: Cultivated every year a) Raziya Sultan • Parauti: Once in two year b) Ala-ud-Din Khalji • Chachar: once in three or four years c) Muhammad -bin-Tughlaq • Banjar: Once in five or more years d) Firoz Tughlaq 29. Which of the following statements is Answer: (C) not correct regarding Mansabadari system 27. Under Delhi Sultanate which of the during the reign of Akbar? following land was under the direct control a) Akbar introduced the Mansabadari of the Sultan and the revenues collected system in his administration were spent for the maintenance of royal b) Under this system every officer was court and royal househols? assigned a rank a) Iqta Land c) The ranks were divided into two – b) Khalisa land Zat and Sawar c) Inam land d) Princes of royal blood were not d) None given any mansab to prevent dissension Answer: (B) Iqta land: land assigned to officials as Iqtas instead of payment for Answer: (D) Under the Mansabadari their services. Inam Land: land assigned or system every officer was assigned a rank granted to religious leaders or religious (Mansab). The lowest rank was 10 and the highest was 5000 for the nobles. Princes of DAY – 2: MEDIEVAL INDIA PTin30 Days OBJECTIVE IAS 5 royal blood received even higher ranks. 30. Which of the following pair is not Zat means personal and it fixed the correct regarding Sher Shah’s personal status of a person. Sawar rank administration? indicated the number of cavalrymen of a a) Diwan-i-Rasalat: Navy Minister person who was required to maintain. b) Diwan-i-Ariz: In charge of Army Every sawar had to maintain at least two c) Diwan–i-Wazarat: In Charge of horses. The mansab rank was not Revenue hereditary. All appointments and d) Diwan-i-Insha: Minister for promotions as well as dismissals were Communications directly made by the emperor. Answer: (A) Diwan-i-Rasalat was Foreign Minister. OBJECTIVE IAS www.objectiveias.in DAY – 2: MEDIEVAL INDIA PTin30 Days OBJECTIVE IAS .