Medieval India Quiz -1

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1. Razmnama was the name given to the Persian translation of a Sanskrit work, at the court of Akbar, named:
(a) Ramayana (b) Mahabharata (c) Gita (d) Veda

2. After the defeat of the battle of Rakshsa Tangadi, Tirumalaraya, the younger brother of Ramaraya, along with his puppet ruler, Sadasivaraya fled to ____
(a) Penukonda (b) Madurai (c) Bidanur (d) Tanjavur

3. Which language was treated as official language of the Vijayanagar empire?
(a)Tamil (b) Kannada (c) Telugu (d) Tulu


4. Whose court was known as ‘Bhuvanavijayam’?
(a) Shivaji (b) Pritviraj Chauhan  (c) Harsha (d) Krishna Deva Raya 

5. Samarangana Sutradhara is an encyclopedic work on classical Indian architecture (Vastu Shastra) written by:
(a)Harsha (b) Bhoja (c) Banabhatta (d) Vigneswara

6. Who was given the title ‘English Khan’ by Jehangir?
(a) Ralph Fitch (b) William Hawkins (c) Thomas Roe (d) Vasco da Gama

7. The first Muslim monarch in India to organise the land revenue system on a sound basis:
(a) Balban (b) Iltutmish (c) Akbar (d) Alauddin Khilji

8. ‘Chachnama’ depicts the history of:
(a) Sind (b) Kashmir  (c) Gujarat (d) Bengal

9. Who adorned the court of all Delhi Sultans from Balban to Ghiassuddin Tughlaq:
(a) Tulsidas (b) Birbal  (c) Abul fazl (d) Amir Khusrau

10. The first Sultan in Indian History to abolish Jizya or poll tax on non-Muslims was Zainul Abidin. He was the ruler of : 
(a) Bengal (b) Kashmir (c) Assam (d) Deccan

11. The Portuguese Governer who transferred the capital form Cochin to Goa:
(a) Nino da Cunha (b) Vasco da Gama  (c) Almeida (d) Albuquerque
12. Where did the Punjabi Ghadrites on board the Kamagata Maru clash with the British army ?
(a) Bombay (b) Calicut (c) Budge Budge (d) Calcutta

13. The ruler when Abdur Razzak visited Vijayanagar:
(a) Krishna Deva Raya(b) Deva Raya I (c) Deva Raya II (d) Achutaraya

14. Muntkhabab-ul Lubab was authored by:
(a) Abul Fazl (b) Abdul Hamid Lahori  (c) Barni (d) Khafi Khan

15. Which dynasty ruled over Ahmednagar?
(a)Nizam Shahi (b) Adil Shahi (c) Imad Shahi (d) Qutub Shahi

16. The Shah Miri dynasty founded by Shah Mir ruled:
(a) Gujarat (b) Khandesh  (c) Jajnagar (d) Kashmir

17. The University of Vikramshila enjoyed the patronage of:
(a)Palas (b) senas  (c) Pratiharas (d) Yasovarman of Kannauj

18. Akbar introduced Dahsala system in:
(a) 1580 (b) 1585 (c) 1590 (d) 1591
19. What was the name of the Paramar king, who wielded the pen with no less dexterity than the sword?
(a) Siddharaja (b) Bhoja  (c) Vakpati Munja (d) Krishnaraja

20. When did Babur adopt the title ‘Ghazi’?
(a)1526 (b) 1527 (c) 1528 (d) 1529

Answers: 1 (b) 2(a) 3 (c) 4 (d) 5(b)6(b) 7(d) 8(a) 9(d)
10(b) 11(a) 12(c) 13(c) 14(d) 15(a)16(d) 17(a)
18(a) 19(b) 20(b)


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