Quiz: Delhi Sultanate

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Number of Questions: 50

Question: 46 -

The term ‘Amaram’ in the Vijayanagar empire stood for

Options:
  1. Grants given to the Brahamanas

  2. Grants given to scholars and poets

  3. Grants given to the widows and the poor

  4. Military grants

  5. Answer:

    Military grants

    Solution not available.

Question: 47 -

Who among the following established Delhi as the capital of Sultanate?

Options:
  1. Qutubuddin Aibak

  2. Muizzuddin Ghori

  3. Razia

  4. Iltutmish

  5. Answer:

    Iltutmish

    Solution not available.

Question: 48 -

Arrange the following rulers of Kashmir in chronological order:

  1. Avantivarman
  2. Didda
  3. Harsha
  4. Jayasingh

Select the correct chronological order from the codes given below codes:

Options:
  1. 3, 4, 1, 2

  2. 4, 1, 2, 3

  3. 1, 2, 3, 4

  4. 2, 3, 4, 1

  5. Answer:

    1, 2, 3, 4

    Solution not available.

Question: 49 -

Give one reason why the description of the Qutb-ud-din Aibak’s dynasty as a “slave dynasty” is regarded as inaccurate.

Options:
  1. Because only three kings of this dynasty were slaves and even these three were manumitted by their masters

  2. Because technically only Qutb-ud-din Aibak started his career as a slave and he too was manumitted upon obtaining a letter of investiture from the Abbasid Caliph

  3. Because all the rulers of this dynasty did not belong to one family

  4. Because except for Qutb-ud-din Aibak. Others rulers of the dynasty were not slaves

  5. Answer:

    Because only three kings of this dynasty were slaves and even these three were manumitted by their masters

    Solution not available.

Question: 50 -

Who among the following Bahmani rulers built the famous “Gol Gumbaz” at Bijapur?

Options:
  1. Ismail Adil Shah

  2. Muhammad Adil Shah

  3. Yusuf Adil Shah

  4. Mahmud Gawan

  5. Answer:

    Muhammad Adil Shah

    Solution:

    Muhammad Adil Shah the Bahmani rulers built the famous ‘Gol Gumbaj’ at Bijapur. The most amazing part of this monument is its huge dome, constructed in the year 1656, the dome is 44 metres in diameter, which made it the second largest dome in the world when it was constructed.